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ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL: 



A BOOK OF READY REFERENCE 



FOR 



AMERICAN PROTESTANTS. 



By WM. II. VAN NOBTWIGK. 



"The Romish church has always ranged herself on the side of despotism."— 
Guizot. 



"There are two very essential steps to be taken in order to win the next Pres- 
idential race. It is scarcely necessary, we trust, to urge our fellow-Catholics to 
assemble everywhere around the Democratic colors ; for they are all, by choice 
or necessity, external to the Republican party, and it is incredible to believe that 
any Catholic who has a modicum of self-respect and love for his church can 
co-operate with that party. If hitherto he has done so, the time is at hand to 
abandon an organization which is confessedly, and without longer disguise, at 
war with our holy religion." — Southern Catholic, (Memphis, Tenn.) 



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NEW YORK: 



H O r. 0? IB Tl O T H E R, 

1876, 






Tm Library 

of Congress 



W<\SHrNGTON 






Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by 

William H. VanNortwick, 
in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



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The people of the United States are on the verge of a great 
politico-religions contest. To this they have been summoned 
by the unreasonable demands and imperious conduct of the 
Roman Catholic hierarchy. In almost every direction we have 
grave indications of what Protestants may expect when the 
hand of Papal authority has grown stronger. The immense 
grants of real estate and money to Papists in the city and 
State of New York, through Catholic control of political power ; 
the systematic and persistent opposition of Romanists to our 
public school system ; the passage of the " Grey Nun " act by 
the Legislature of New York and its subsequent approval by 
Governor Tilden ; the massing of Papists in all our large 
cities, and their unity at the ballot-box ; the fierce antagonism 
of the Catholic Alliance of New Jer. ey to certain constitutional 
amendments preservative of the free-school system in that 
State ; the avowed control of the entire Roman Catholic vote 
of Ohio in opposition to the last proposed constitution, on the 
ground that it forbade all sectarian appropriations of money 
from the school fund ; the pledge given in the editorial 
columns of the Catholic Telegraph, of Cincinnati, of the " solid 
vote" of the Romanists of Ohio to one of the leading political 
parties, in view of the passage of what is known as the 
" Geghan Bill" — thereby showing that already that Church 
has entered the political field, and is able to control and pledge, 
through priestly influence, the solid vote of its membership, 
and actually uses this power to further its own ends ; the fact 
that we have already a Cardinal in this country, pledged by 
bis oath to " seek out and oppose ; persecute and fight against 



4 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

[Latin — omni conatu persecuturum el impugnatarum'] *heretics, 
schismatics against the same our Lord, the Pope and his before- 
mentioned successors, with very possible effort : n these facts, 
coupled with the absolute power of the Pope to decide all 
doctrines of faith and morals, and to require absolute submis- 
sion in all matters of discipline and government, and to release 
his subjects from allegiance to civil governments that stand in 
his way, are sufficiently significant and startling to awaken the 
citizens of the United States to the utmost vigilance in guard- 
ing against the encroachments and machinations of this wily 
and powerful despotism. It is time to be reminded that " the 
price of liberty is eternal vigilance/' 



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PAPAL DECLARATIONS. 

More than twenty years ago the Shepherd of the Valley, an 
American Roman Catholic newspaper, used the following 
language : 

44 Is it not our boast that the Church never changes, and is 
not her history an open book, which all may read, winch we 
cannot close it we would, and of which we have no cause to be 
ashamed ? We gain nothing by declaiming so earnestly against 
the doctrine of the civil punishment of spiritual crimes. Our 
enemies will not believe that we are better than our church, 
and, for her, her history is before them; they know what she 
sanctioned in the Middle Ages, what she did then, and does 
now where she can." 

The murderous disposition of Papists at San Miguel ; of their 
co-assassins in Mexico, and at Lawrence, in the State of Mas- 
sachusetts, are fair specimens of what Rome sanctioned and 
did in the Middle Ages, and does now where she can. 



"We have said that we are not advocates of religious free- 
dom, and we repeat that we are not. The liberty to believe con- 
trary to the teachings of the Church is the liberty to believe a 
lie ; the liberty to think otherwise than she permits is the lib- 
erty to abuse the mind and pollute the imagination.' 7 — Shepherd 
of the Valley, 



" If the Catholics ever gain — which they surely will do, though 
at a distant day — an immense numerical superiority, religious 
freedom is at an end. So say our enemies. So we believe." — 
Shepherd of the Valley. 

♦Protestants. 



ANTI -PAPAL MANUAL. 



"We Dumber seven millions in this country, and in fifteen 
years will take this country, and build our institutions oyer the 
grave of Protestantism." — Priest Seeker, 

" Religious liberty is merely endured until the opposite can be 
carried into effect without peril to the Catholic world." — Bishop 
O'Connor, 



" The Catholic church numbers one-third of the American 
population, and if its membership shall increase for the uext 
thirty years as it has for the thirty years past, in 1900 Rome 
will have a majority and be bound to take this country and 
keep it. There is, ere long, to be a State religion in this coun- 
try, and that State religion is to he Roman Catholic" — Priest Hecken 



"Protestantism, of every form, has not, and never can have, 
any right where Catholicity is triumphant ; and therefore we 
lose the breath we expend in declaiming against bigotry and 
intolerance, and in favor of religious liberty, or the right of 
any man to be of any religion as best pleases him." — Catholic 
Review, January, 1852. 



"As the Church commands the spiritual part of man directly, 
she therefore commands the tvhole man, and all that depends on man. 
From the darkness of the catacombs the Church dictated laws to 
the subjects of the emperors, abrogating decrees, whether ple- 
bian, senatorial, or imperial, when in conflict with Catholic or- 
dinances. Did the Christian emperors become insolent, the 
Church armed against them their very electors. To every ram- 
pant heresy the Church knew how to oppose the power either of 
the peoples or of their princes ; and when these supports seemed 
at last to have been snatched from her by a universal rational- 
ism, behold, there is a sudden turning back of both ; of the na- 
tions, fearing an unbridled royal power, and proclaiming the 
necessity of a supreme spiritual power ; of the princes, beginning 
to understand, at the light of a bloody communism, that the 
principles of the Church are a firmer foundation for their thrones 
than bayonets, which must always be entrusted to a part of the 
people. The conclusion is, therefore, that there are no limits to 
the exercise of the coercive power of the Church, either in view 
of her means or of her aim." — *Civilta Cattolica, 1854. 



" We confess that we are grieved to see distinguished Cath- 
olic statesmen searching history to fiud examples of resistance 
to papal authority by the temporal power, and concluding from 

* Published at "Rome as the personal organ of the Pope. 



6 ANTT-PAPAL MANUAL. 

them that a man may be a Catholic and also loyal to his tempo- 
ral sovereign. Let us, in God's name, have no more of this. 
Let us dare to assert the truth in the face of the lying world, 
and, instead of pleading for our Church at the bar of the State, 
summon the State to appear at the bar of the Church, its divinely 
constituted judge." — Brownson's Review. 



"Petty politicians may conclude that the Church has lost her 
power, because she does not enlist artillery, cavalry, and infan- 
try ; but the truth is, that the artillery, cavalry, and infantry 
of the Catholics are in the hands of the Church, inasmuch as in 
her hands are the mind, the reason, and the power of every true 
Catholic." — Civilta Cattolica. « 



"The Pope has the right to pronouuce sentence of deposition 
against any sovereign, when required by the good of the spirit- 
ual order." — Brownson's Review. 



" The power of the Church exercised over sovereigns in the 
middle ages was not a usurpation, was not derived from the 
concession of princes, or the consent of all people, but was, and 
is, held by divine right, and whoso resists it, rebels against the 
King of kings and Lord of lords." — Brownson's Review. 



11 She, the Church, bears by divine right both swords, but 
she exercises the temporal sword by the hand of the princes or 
magistrates. The temporal sovereign holds it subject to her 
order, to be exercised in her service, under her direction." — 
Brownson's Review. 



The (Catholic) Tablet of October 9, 1864, printed a sermon de- 
livered by Archbishop Manning, now Cardinal — in the Pro- 
Cathedral, Kensington, England, in which that prelate puts the 
following sentences iuto the Pope's mouth : 

" I acknowledge no civil power ; I am the subject of no prince ; 
and I claim more than this — I claim to be the supreme judge and 
director of the consciences of men — of the peasant that tills the 
fields, and of the prince that sits upon the throne ; of the house- 
hold that lives in the shade of privacy, and the legislator that 
makes laws for kingdoms ; I am the sole, last, supreme judge 
of what is right and wrong." 



" Moreover, we declare, affirm, define, and pronounce it to be 
necessary to salvation for evo*y human creature to be subject to the 
Row n n Pontiff. " — Archbishop Manning. 



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"By the words of the go spel we are instructed that in this 
his (that is Peter's) power there are two swords, the spiritual 
and temporal. For when the apostles say, ' Behold, here are 
two swords,' that is, in the Church, the Lord did not say i It 
is too much,' hut ' It is enough.' Assuredly, he who denies 
that the temporal sword is in the power of Peter, gives ill heed 
to the word of the Lord, saying, ' Put up again thy sword into 
its place.' Both, therefore, the spiritual sword and the material 
sword are in the power of the Church." — Archbishop Manning, 
in reply to Mr. Gladstone. 

The catechisms of Father Perrone, prepared for the in- 
struction of the youth in Italy and other countries, and sanc- 
tioned by the Papacy, teaches, by questions and answers, that 
Protestantism is " rebellion against Christ ;" that its es- 
sence is " atheism;" that its tendencies are immoral, as shown 
in the state of England, &c. He also teaches that " heresy being 
a crime against the state ought to be proceeded against by the 
civil power and the Inquisition." He adds, however, that "in 
countries where heretics are the majority, this method need 
not be taken ! " How fortunate for the present comfort and 
peace of American Protestants. 



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ULTRAMONTANE DOCTRINES. 

o 

" The Pope, as Pope, although he has not any merely temporal 
power, hath, nevertheless, in order to a spiritual good, the 
supreme power of disposing of the temporal concerns of all 
Christians." — Bellarmine, chap. vi. 

^ ■ 

" The clergy cannot be punished by political judges, neither 
be in any way brought before the judicial chair ot the secular 
magistrate. The Pope has redeemed the clergy from the obe- 
dience due to princes; therefore kings are no more the superiors 
of the clergy." — Bellarmine, chap, xxviii. 



" All those who take from the Church of Rome, and from the 
See of St. Peter, one of the two swords, and allow only the 
spiritual, are branded for heretics." — Baronius. 

"The Pope is universal judge ; he is King of kings and Lord 
of lords. God's tribunal and the Pope's tribunal are the same. 
All other powers are his subjects." — Muscovius, 

In 1545, the Council of Trent declared as follows: "The 
exemption of clerical persons has been instituted by the ordina- 
tion of God, and by canonical institutions." — Sess. 25, Chap. xx. 



8 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

The Council of Constance, in A. D. 1414, decreed that — 
" The laity have no jurisdiction and power over the clergy." j 

From Chapter III, of the Vatican Council, held in 1870, 
which treats of the power and nature of the Primacy of the 
Roman Pontiff, we extract the following : 

" And since by the divine right of Apostolic primacy the 
Roman Pontiff is placed over the universal church, we further 
teach and declare that he is the supreme judge of the faithful, 
and that in all causes, the decision of which belongs to the 
Church, recourse may be had to his tribunal, and that none 
may re-open the judgment of the Apostolic See, than whose 
authority there is none greater, nor can any lawfully review its 
judgment." 

From the decree and canons of the same Council we copy the 
following memorable decision promulgated at Rome, July 18, 
1870 : 

" Therefore faithfully adhering to the tradition received from 
the beginning of the Christian faith, for the glory of God our 
Saviour, the exaltation of the Catholic Religion, and the salva- 
tion of Christian people, the sacred council approving, we 
teach and define that it is a dogma divinely revealed : that the 
Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in 
discharge of the office of Pastor and Doctor of all Christians, 
by virtue of his supreme Apostolic authority he defines a doc- 
trine regarding faith or morals to be held by the universal 
church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed 
Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine 
Redeemer willed that His Church should be endowed for de- 
fining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore 
such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, 
and not from the consent of the Church" 

" But if any one — which may God avert — presume to contra- 
dict this our definition, let him he anathema." 

In theory, absolutely, and in practice as far as possible, the 
Pope of Rome has the absolutism of Jehovah in all that per- 
tains to faith and morals, and the whole world are slaves to his 
uncontrolled will. 



TRUE ORIGIN OF THE POPE'S TEMPORAL 

POWER. 



"In ancient days there were two kings, the one a murderer, 
the other a robber. Phoca, at Constantinople, was the mur- 
derer; Pepin, of France, the robber. From Phoca, the mur- 
derer, as Satan's agent, came the Pope's spiritual supremacy $ 



ANTI -PAPAL MANUAL. 9 

from Pepin the robber, as Satan's agent, came the Pope's tem- 
poral supremacy. From these hands came Rome's diploma; 
from an assassin like Phoca, a usurper aud robber, like Pepin. 

"From this usurper it is that the Pope draws his title of 
princeps in temporalibus. Charlmagne, to farther his own am- 
bitious projects, granted principalities to the Pope in Italy, for 
the purpose of keeping her divided against herself. Charl- 
magne said in his mind: ' While this power, given to the Pope, 
lasts, Italy will never be one ; divided she cau be easily con- 
quered and held.' 

"After this we have the Pope always increasing in his tem- 
poral dominion. The Countess Matilda left him — what was 
not her's to leave — a part of Tuscany. Among other Romish 
Catholic historians who mention the fact, we have the monk 
Lamberto, who says that this woman — the Countess Matilda 
— was in love with Pope Gregory VII. but that her's was a 
spiritual love ! Led by this spiritual love, she abandoned her 
second husband, and came from Germany to Rome iu order to 
be near her spiritual lover. Dying, to give the last and strong- 
est proof of her spiritual love, she left Gregory VII. — Hilde- 
brand — 'all her possessions in Tuscany.' Tuscany did not 
belong to Matilda, as a sheep or a field, but on this devisement 
of spiritual love, it was seized and added to the temporal domain 
ot the Pope. From Phoca, Pepin, Matilda — murderer, robber, 
adulteress ! Oh, judge of the legacy by those who bequeathed 
it ! This kingdom more and more increased. Ferrara, Bologna, 
Pentapolis, (five towns near the Adriatic Sea), and many other 
principalities, were added to it. Bologna alone gave itself 
away voluntarily, reserving its right as a republic; but the 
first French Republic overthrew all its guarantees, and French 
spoliation once more was active against freedom. He that 
reads the true history of Italy, knows that, to obtain such a 
union of small states, the Popes' instruments were intrigues, 
poison, daggers, confessors, assassins, and murderers." — Gavazzi, 



DISAGREEMENT OF INFALLIBLE POPES. 

o 

The edict of Phocas, conferring the title of "Universal 
Bishop" on the Bishop of Rome, was not issued until the year 
606. u A few years before this title was granted to Boniface, 
Saint Gregory the Great wrote in a letter, saying: 'Any one 
who shall assume the title of Universal Bishop is an apostate, 
and the fore-runner of Antichrist.' Therefore Boniface., who 
first assumed, and every Pope who has since borne, down to 
Pius IX. to-day, who glories in, the name of Universal Bishop, 
is, according to this writing of Pope Gregory the Great, no 



10 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

more than the precursor of Antichrist. And therefore Papal 
supremacy is an intrusion, is a folly, is a crime." — GavazzL 



" Pope Gelasius has said: l If I find a man who, at the same 
time calls himself prince and priest, he deserves the name of 
Satanical, because subservient to the ambition of Satan.' I 
quote the words of a Pope, and as surely as the words of a 
Pope are infallible, — which Rome says they are, — so surely 
Pius IX. is the best servant of the devil, and, to the risk of 
eternal damnation, retains the names, united, of priest and 
king. Don't answer me, answer Pope Gelasius ; to him I leave 
the responsibility of his sentence." — GavazzL 



" The Council of Trent decreed that the Latin Vulgate should 
be the only authority in the Romish Church; and when this 
was proposed, it was shown by the scholars of that period to be 
exceedingly incorrect. After various changes it was taken in 
hand by Sixtus V., who issued a new edition which he com- 
manded should be received as the only authorized version, and 
read throughout the Christian world. Subsequently Pope Cle- 
ment VIII., as infallible as his predecessor, issued a statement 
that the edition of Sixtus V., called the reformed edition, con- 
tained numerous dangerous errors. Think of an infallible Pope 
sending forth to the Christian world an infallible version of the 
Bible, in which another infallible Pope discovers numerous 
dangerous errors! This edition, in turn, being subjected to a 
critical examination by a man of learning, and an ardent Roman 
Catholic, was found to contain several hundred errors. This is 
now the authorized version, and, like the Douay Bible, is adapt- 
ed to the corrupt doctrines and usages in the Papal church. — 
Bufus W. Clark, D. D. 

Infallible Popes! Infallible Vicegerents of Christ! What 
can be more amusing than to see some of these infallibles fight- 
ing for infallibility with other of the infallibles, like dog and 
cat. Gregory the Great says, he who assumes the title of 
Universal Bishop, is Satan ; and Gregory VII. says the Bishop 
of Rome is universal. Leo IX. is for, and Gregory XIII. against 
infallibility. Pope Vigilius is against, and Innocent III. for 
transubstantiation. Pius V., by a bull, declared the breviary 
correct ; Urbanus VIII. declared the breviary of Pius V. full of 
errors. Sextus V. pronounced the Bible published by him cor- 
rect ; Clement VIII. deelared the Bible of Sixtus V. to contain 
two thousand capital errors. Clement XIV., by an infallible 
bull, suppressed the Jesuits as fatal to the church and society. 
Pius VII., by another infallible bull, re-established the Jesuits 
as useful to the church and society. Infallible ! 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 11 

PAPAL DUPLICITY. 



Under the protection of the Connt of Toulouse the Albigenses 
enjoyed political and religious freedom. Having refused his 
consent to a war of extermination against this people, the Count 
was excommunicated by the Papacy and his destruction re- 
solved upon. The policy of Rome towards her opponents is 
well shown by the instructions given by Pope Innocent III. to 
the Abbot of Citeaux, in the following memorable words : 

" We advise yon, according to the precepts of the Apostle 
Paul, to use cunning in your dealings with the Count, which in 
the present case, should be deemed prudence. It is expedient 
to attack those separately who have broken the unity of the 
church ; to spare the Count of Toulouse for a season, treating 
him with wise dissimulation, in order that the other here- 
tics may be more easily destroyed, and that we may crush him 
at our leisure when he stands alone." 

The most memorable instance of Papal duplicity, however, 
is shown in the treatment of Philip II. of Spain, one of the 
greatest supporters of the Romish See that history can produce. 
The Pope dreaded his power, and secretly sought the alliance 
of Elizabeth of England, advising her to assist the insurgents 
against Philip's authority in the Netherlands. When the 
Spauish King had determined on a war with England, the 
Pope sent information to Elizabeth of the plan forming for her 
destruction, together with copies of letters he had received 
from the King relative to the Armada. The whole history of 
the Popedom is full of such instances as these. 

The present Pope commenced his reign with an act of gross 
duplicity. Cardinal Lambruschini had been the prime in- 
strument of tyranny under the immediate predecessor of Pius 
IX. When the Cardinals were in conclave for the election of 
a Pope, after Gregory's death, Lambruschini said: "The 
new Pope must, in the first instance, grant an amnesty; without 
it he cannot continue to reign." The amnesty was granted by 
Pius IX., but when the Act was sent to the provinces, the Sec- 
retary of State, then Cardinal Gizzi, by the Pope's order, 
wrote to all governors, cardinals and prelates, instructing 
them to put all possible obstacles in the way of its opera- 
tion. Referring to this piece of treachery on the part of the 
Pope, Gavazzi says : "All the acts of Pio Nino show the same 
duplicity." We are indebted to the same authority for the 
following: 

"The Pope's teacher and confessor, Monsignore Graziosi, 
a few days before he died, told me that Pius was not very 
learned in theology, but that, as a compensation, he was very 
sound in the priestly art,— arte pretina,— namely, to say one 
thing while you think it another." 



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WHAT POPES HAVE DONE. 



Henry VII, Emperor of Germany, was assassinated by order 
of Pope Clement V., poison being administered to him in the 
Eucharist, from the hands of his Domiuician confessor. 

The Duke of Guise was assassinated by order of his 
sovereign ; yet, notwithstanding his opposition to the Hu- 
guenots of France, and his being the leader of the Romanist 
party, the Pope justified the murder on the ground of political 
expediency. 

Gregory II., deprived the Einperor Leo III., of a portion of 
his empire. 

Zachary deposed Childeric, King of the Franks, and sub- 
stituted Pepin in his room. 

Leo III., transferred the Empire from the Greeks to the 
Romans. 

Pascal II., in 1099, deposed Henry IV., of Germany. 
Innocent III., in 1210, deposed Otho IV. 
Gregory IX., in 1239, excommunicated Frederick II., and 
absolved his subjects from their allegiance. 

Innocent IV., in 1245, pronounced sentence of deprivation 
against the same sovereign. 

Boniface VIII., in 1302, thundered forth against Philip le 
Bel of France, the famous bull Unam Sanctum, containing 
the most extravagant assertions of the Holy See. 

Paul III., in 1536 and 1538, deposed and damned Henry 
VIII. of England, and absolved his subjects from their allegiance. 

Pius V., in 1570, fulmiuated a bull against Queen Elizabeth 
in which, " out of fulness of apostolic power," he deprived her 
of " her pretended right to the kingdom," and released her sub- 
jects from "all manner of duty, dominion, allegiance, and 
obedience." 

Pius IX., in 1854, declared the laws of Sardinia to be "abso- 
lutely null and void." He has since excommunicated King 
Victor Emanuel, and attempfcea to interfere with the execu- 
tion of the laws in Italy, Spain. Prussia, Austria, and Brazil. 
In 1875 he demanded a restoration of the Catholic status in 
Spain, intendiug thereby to close Protestant houses of worship, 
and prevent the burial of Protestants in consecrated ground. 

The present Pope has re-affirmed all the powers exercised by 
his predecessors and claims the right to use them. Cardinal 
Manning, in his reply to Mr. Gladstone, says : " Pius IX. can- 
not repudiate powers which his predecessors justly exercised, 
without implying that their actions were unjust." 



ANTI- PAPAL MANUAL. 13 

Let American Protestants be warned in season. Pius IX. 
gives up uo power exercised by the Papacy prior to his instal- 
lation as Pope. He claims the right to depose rulers, overturn 
governments, nullify laws not consistent with the interests of 
the Church, to absolve Roman Catholics from civil allegiance, 
reestablish the Inquisition, and inaugurate anew the persecution 
of all who refuse to ^ield to the abominations of Rome. 



PAPAL INTERFERENCE IN PRUSSIA. 






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With a view to absolving his Catholic subjects in Germany 
from obedience to the present laws of the empire, the Pope, 
under date of February 5, 1875, issued a bull, which was sent 
privately by a special carrier to every German Bishop. The 
following passage will show that Pius IX. tenaciously upholds 
the Papal claim to interfere with civil governments. 

" But the desecration of the episcopal dignity, the violation 
of the freedom and rights of the Catholic Church, and the per- 
secution to which not only the above-named dioceses, but all 
the dioceses in Prussia are exposed, induce us to raise our voice 
and to condemn tbose laws which are the source of all this mis- 
chief and of all these calamities. We oppose this impious power 
with all the euergy and authority of divine right. In virtue 
of the apostolic charge with which we are invested, we declare 
by this letter to all those who are concerned in this * persecu- 
tion in particular, and to the whole Catholic population, that 
these laws are void, because they contradict the institutions of 
the Church." 



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PRINCE BISMARCK'S VIEW. 



In a speech delivered April 16, 1875, the German Chancellor 
said: — "The worst is, that after the Vatican Council the 
bishops, too, have ceased to be independent, and the Roman 
Catholic Church is governed by the Pope alone. Accordingly, 
that clause in the charter which leaves the affairs of the Ro- 
man Church in Prussia to itself means nothing but that they 
are left to the Pope. Now, this Pope is a foreiguer — an Italian 
priest — elected by Italian priests and advised by Italian 
priests, who care exceedingly little for the welfare and prosper- 
ity of these poor sandy marshes of ours. Still, having every 
priest in Prussia under his absolute orders — as to the Catholic 
laity, they never were considered by their Church any thing 

*Persecution in this case simply means resistance to the purposes of 
Rome. Whenever her hierarchy cannot rule, they claim to be the sub- 
jects of persecutioD. 



14 ' ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

but misera contribuens plebs — this Pope, this foreigner, this 
Italian, is more powerful in this country than auy one person,' 
not excepting even the King. And now, please to consider 
what this foreigner has announced as the programme by which he 
rules in Prussia as elsewhere. He begins by arrogating to him- 
self the right to define how far his authority extends, and 
where King and Parliament may be permitted to claim some 
slight prerogative too. He then goes ou — of course I am 
speaking of the Syllabus and other new statues — to condemn 
constitutional government, the liberty of the press, liberal 
education, etc. He likewise hands over heretics, including the 
great majority of the Prussians, to eternal perdition, and orders 
us to accept the Romish religiop, as we value the future salva- 
tion of our souls. And this Pope, who would use fire and 
sword against us if he had the power to do so, who would con- 
fiscate our property and not spare our lives, expects us to 
allow him full, uncontrolled sway in our midst. This Pope, 
who has semi-official papers of his own in Prussia, more numer- 
ous, more actively circulated, more skillfully edited, and 
cheaper than those of the Government, expects us to allow him 
an imperium in imperio, though he is pleased to use his political 
influence all against us." 



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ROMANISM AND FREEDOM. 

o 

It is common in the United States for Catholics and their 
political allies to claim that Rome is the one great patron of 
learning and of freedom, the encourager of free thought, free 
opinion, and free expression. Nothing can be more untrue. 
The world's history disproves the claim. The fact that the 
Papal Church assumes to be infallible, of necessity makes her 
intolerant. Her arrogant claim of supremacy above all govern- 
ments of the earth in things spiritual, must also of necessity 
make her an enemy to free thought and action. The truth of 
this position is clearly set forth in the Rhemish Testament, 
which urges that " the blood of heretics is not called the blood 
of the saints, no more than the blood of thieves, man-killers, 
and other malefactors, for the shedding of which, by order of 
justice, no commonwealth shall suffer."— -Bhem. Test, Annot. up* 
on Bev. zvii. 6. 



"Experience teaches," says Cardinal Bellarmiite, "that there 
is no other remedy for the evil but to put heretics to death ; for 
the Church proceeded gradually, and tried every remedy. At 
first, she merely excommunicated them; afterward she added a 
fine ; then she banished them ; and tiually she was constrained 
to put them to death. — Bellarmine de Laim ) lib. iii. ; chap. xxi. 



ANTI PAPAL MANUAL. 15 

The fourth General Couucil of Lateran was held A. D. 1215, 
and gave utterance to the following : " Let the secular powers 
be warned that as they desire to be respected and takeo for be- 
lievers, so they publicly take an oath for the defence of the 
faith, that they will strictly and in good earnest exterminate to 
their utmost power, from the lands subject to their jurisdiction, 
all heretics designated by the Church." 



"In the forty-three years of the administrations of the first 
four Inquisitors-General, which closed in the year 1524, they 
committed eighteen thousand human beings to the flames, and 
inflicted inferior punishments on two hundred thousand per- 
sons more, with various degrees of severity. It was this work 
of the Inquisition in Spain, with a knowledge that the Spanish 
and French monarchs meditated the extension over all Chris- 
tendom of the Inquisition, that seated Elizabeth firmly on the 
throne of England, and secured that political toleration that 
led to the brightest triumphs of the Reformation." — Voice to 
America. 



Writing to Erasmus under date of May 18, 1534, Vivis 
says : " We live in hard times, in which we can neither speak 
or be silent without danger." 



Truckling politicians and knavish editors frequently allude 
to the Magna Charta, the very groundwork of freedom, as the 
fruit of Catholic liberality. History teaches that in the strug- 
gle between the lords and King John, the Pope took part with 
the King against the Barons, and brought the whole of his 
temporal and spiritual power to defeat their demands. From 
the Council of Lateran Pope Innocent thundered his bulls of 
excommunication against them. " We will have you to know," 
says the Pope, " that in General Council we have anathema- 
tized, in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy 
Ghost, in the name of the Apostles Peter and Paul, and in our 
own name, the Barons of England, with their partisans and 
abettors, for persecuting John, the illustrious King of England, 
who has taken the cross, and is a vassal of the Roman Church, 
for striving to deprive him of a kingdom, which is known to 
belong to the Roman Church." 

The wily bishop, the innocent layman, and the designing 
politician, can never sufficiently eulogize the liberality that 
characterized the Colonial government of Maryland, under 
which in times of universal intolerance, men could live un- 
molested in the enjoyment of the rights of conscience. What 
had the Papacy to do with this tolerancy in Maryland? 



16 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

Nothing, absolutely nothing ! An eminent writer truly says : 
"The luminous and beautiful exception of Maryland to the 
spirit of colonization of the seventeenth century was owing to 
the happy coincidence of a wise and energetic statesman receiv- 
ing a charter from a Protestant monarch jealous of his faith, 
and both statesman and monarch compelled to pay deference 
to the progressive doctrine and political strength of the Inde- 
pendents of England, who were then preparing the way for 
successful revolutiou, and the final triumph of universal lib- 
erty in these American States.'' 



In 1645, the English House of Commons established liberty of 
conscience in all the American plantations. In obedience to 
this enactment, Mary laud, in 1649, passed its act of toleration 
to all avowed Christians. The colonial government at this 
time consisted of sixteen Protestants and eight Catholics. 



As late as 1832, the church, through Pope Gregory XVI., in 
his famous Encyclical letter, pronounces, — " From that pol- 
luted fountain of indifference flows the absurd and erroneous 
doctrine, or rather raving, in defence of liberty of conscience, 
for which most persistent error, the course opened by that en- 
tire and wild liberty of opinion, which is everywhere attempt- 
ing the overthrow of civil and religious institutions, and which 
the unblushing impudence of some ha3 held forth as an advan- 
tage to religion." " From hence arise those revolutions in the 
minds of men, hence this aggravated corruption of youths, 
hence the contempt among the people of sacred things, and of 
the most holy institutions and laws ; hence, iu one word, that 
pest of all others most to be dreaded in a State, unbridled lib- 
erty of opinion." 



" For our own part, we take this opportunity to explain our 
hoarty delight at the suppression of the Protestant chapel in 
Eome. This may be thought intolerent ; but when, we ask, 
did we ever profess to be tolerant of Protestantism, or to favor 
the question that Protestantism ought to be tolerated? On 
the contrary, we hate Protestantism — we detest it with our 
whole heart and soul, and we pray our aversion to it may never 
decrease." — Pittsburg Catholic Visitor, 1848. 



" No good government can exist without religion — and there 
can be no religion without an Inquisition, which is wisely de- 
signed for the promotion and protection of the true faith." — 
Boston Pilot, 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL 17 

"The present Pontiff may be presumed to hava as enlarged 
views as any of his predecessors, yet he is as far removed from 
encouraging republican ideas as the most bigoted prelate of the 
dark ages. He represents, in this matter, not himself, but his 
church ; and acts only in accordance with the spirit and dic- 
tates of the great religio-political institution of which he is the 
head. Pius IX. blessed the Czar of Russia, and the newly made 
Emperor of Austria, because they aided in restoring him to his 
throne, from which he had been driven by the republicans of 
Italy. At the same time he cursed Piedmont and Belgium, be- 
cause they asserted that the civil power was superior in civil 
matters to the power of the priests, and attempted to escape 
from some of the galling usurpations of Rome. Pius entered 
the hospitals, rilled with wounded republicans who had fallen 
in the attempt to give liberty to the people, and poured upon 
them his special maledictions. To the wounded French — those 
hireling troops who had been employed to stifle liberty — he 
dispensed his blessing and loaded them with rosaries, medals, 
and crosses of honor. Such was his treatment to the men who 
had cruelly shot down his own subjects — his own people ! The 
bones of the martyrs of liberty were left to decay upon the 
surface of the ground; and, iii this nineteenth century, travel- 
ers were disgusted in witnessing this savage cruelty, allowed 
almost under the very walls of the Vatican. We repeat, that 
Pius IX., in these enormities, represents the principles of his 
church ; and were he to act more liberal — more in accordance 
with the spirit of the age — he won Id cease to be Pope, for Ro- 
manism and freedom will ever be at war." — Voice to America, 



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THE INQUISITION. 

Popish devotees are made to believe, and Protestants are 
constantly told that the Inquisition was not established by the 
Catholic Church, and therefore the Church is not to be held 
accountable for any of its acts. 

In refutation of this falsehood, we quote Saent Liguori, one 
of the most reverend of the Catholic Fathers. He says : " Pope 
Paul III. established the General Inquisition at Rome, in the 
year 1542, by his bull 34, commencing with the words i Licet 
ab initio,"— (Ligor. de Prohib. IAbo. p. 238.— " In the General 
Congregation/' continues the Saint, " of the Holy Roman and 
Universal Inquisition, held in the Apostolical Quirinal Palace, 
before our most holy lord, Lord Benedict, by Divine Providence 
the fourteenth Pope, and before the most eminent and most 
serene doctors the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 
specially deputed by the holy Apostolical See, General Inquisitors 
against heretical pravi y. "—Ligor. de Bom. Pont., Dec. III., p. 85 



18 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

" I often hear it said, first, that the Inquisition was not an 
ecclesiastical tribunal, and that, therefore, the Church could 
not be made accountable for its acts ; second, that the Church 
of Rome never persecutes anybody for his religious opinions. 
Hum ! Inquisitions not ecclesiastical, and the Church never a 
persecutor ! You will oblige me by answering a few questions. 
Was or was not the inventor of the Inquisitiou one St. Dominic 
Guzman, also founder of the Dominician order of Friars ? Did 
not the first approval of the Inquisition come from one Inno- 
cent III., an infallible Pope of Rome ? Did or did not twenty- 
four different Popes — not kings or laymen — but infallible 
Popes, Vicars of Christ on earth and so forth, issue twenty-four 
different bulls in favor of the Inquisition ? And are not the 
Judges of the Inquisition always Prelates, Priests, and especial- 
ly Dominician or Franciscan Friars f Are not the tribunals 
of the Inquisition held in the monasteries of Franciscan or 
Dominician Friars ? To the present day is not the Pope him- 
self, and always and forever shall not the Pope himself be, the 
supreme head and prefect of the Inquisition ? To the dishonor 
of the Church and Priesthood of Rome, is not Pius IX., at this 
moment, the supreme head and prefect of the Holy Inquisition V 
— GavazzVs Lectures, p. 257. 



u After the flight of Pius IX.— from Rome — one of our first 
cares was to open the dungeons of the Inquisition, to free its 
many victims, to destroy the relics of these priestly cruelties, 
and to change the inquisitorial apartments into alms-houses for 
the poor people deprived of their habitations during the Roman 
siege. But the first care of Pius IX., on his return, was to re- 
new those inquisitorial prisons." — Gavazzi. 



" We have not a doubt that hundreds of converts to Protest- 
antism are immured in all parts of the laud, the history of 
whose wrongs and sorrows will never be known till God shall 
judge the secrets of all hearts. * * * A friend in the 
West, who is well informed upon the subject, writes us that but 
for this terrorism in the Romish Church there are thousands 
who would renounce and abandon Romanism forever. This is 
a terrible state of things in a land where freedom of conscience 
and religious liberty are professedly the birthright of all ; but 
so it is. So far as Romanism has power to prevent it, there 
is no religous freedom in the land. And this terror and perse- 
cution are among the agencies now being vigorously employed 
in this country to secure the supremacy of Popery over all the 
Republic." — Hiram Mattison, D. D. 



The Pope is still supreme head and prefect of the Inquisi- 



ANTI -PAPAL MANUAL. 19 

tion. He is bound by the decrees of Councils, the traditions 
and practices of the Church, and his own vows, to perpetuate 
the institution. Our country swarms with Jesuits, Franciscan 
and Domioician Friars. Catholics have demanded the establish- 
ment of the Inquisition here. Who shall say that it has not 
been done ? 



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THE PAPACY UNCHANGED. 



That the persecuting spirit of Rome' still lives and has lost 
nothing of its vigor, is shown by her bull in ccena domini. This 
bull is a summary of all those ecclesiastical doctrines and laws 
which tend to establish the Papal persecuting despotism. It is 
read in all Popish churches at least twice in each year. 

Its second section is so sauve in its spirit, so ornate in its 
diction, and evinces the fact so clearly that the Church of 
Eome is the " Bride of Christ," that we will offer her its 
benefits by quoting it entire. 

" In the name of God Almighty, Father, Son and Holy 
Ghost, and by the authority of the blessed apostles Peter and 
Paul, and by our own, we excommunicate and anathematize all 
Hussites, Wickli fates, Lutherans, Zwinglians, Calvinists, 
Huguenots, Anabaptists, Trinitarians, and all apostates from 
the faith, and all other heretics, by whatsoever name they are 
called, and whatever sect they be. And also their adherents, 
receivers, favorers, and geuerally auy defenders of them, 
with all who without our authority or that of the Apostolic See 
knowingly read or retain, or in any way, or from any cause, 
publicly or privately, or from any pretext, defend their books 
containing heresy or treating of religion, as also schismatics 
and those who withdraw themselves, or recede obstinately 
itorn their obedience to us or the existing Roman Pontiff." 

This is Rome's sauviter in modo, accompanied by her fortiter 
in re — a beautiful development of her graces, and the proud 
legacy of this mother of clemency to a world. 



Priest Hecker — who hopes to build Romish institutions over 
the grave of American Protestantism — publicly asserts that 
Popery is, of all religions, most favorable to free institutions. 
Some Protestants profess to believe in a converted Romanism 
and tell us that its old self has totally disappeared. They pat- 
ronize the Papal hierarchy. They give money to build its 
churches and cathedrals, and establish its power firmly in the 
land. Let such Protestants examine the doings and sayings of 
Pius IX. If he does not know what Popery is, who does ? 



20 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

The Austrian Government, between December 21, 1867, and 
May 25, 1868, established laws to protect freedom of conscience, 
freedom of worship, freedom of instruction, freedom of the 
press aud civil marriage. The last means that a marriage is 
valid solemnized by a civil magistrate, so that now Protestants 
may marry Catholics without promising that their children 
shall be baptized and brought up in the Romish Church. The 
freedom granted by the Austrian laws is a part of free institu- 
tions, and is essential to them But the Pope, in his allocu- 
tion, denounces these laws as " Odious 71 — " In flagrant contra- 
diction with the doctrines of the Catholic religion " and 
" with natural right." Is. this the changed spirit of Popery ? 



When ? in 1864, the Pope issued his encyclical and syllabus, 
condemning, as in the allocution, all the liberties and pro- 
gress of the nineteenth century, and adding that civil rulers 
ought to enforce the decrees of the Church, the Archbishop of 
Cincinnati spoke of it thus: a We receive it implicitly. We 
bow to it reverently. We embrace it cordially. We hail it 
gratefully. To us it is the voice of God on Sinai." And this is 
tolerant Romanism ! 



The French Minister of Instruction, in 1867, directed all the 
Universities of France to provide courses of popular lectures on 
the sciences and history, for young ladies between the ages of 
sixteen and twenty. Bishop Dupanloup at once denounced it 
as ruinous ; said the girls would be utterly demoralized by re- 
ceiving instruction from the lips of laymen. Other French 
bishops joined in the cry, and the Pope added, "A woman, 
with this profane knowledge, becomes a stumbling-block in 
society ;- -a germ of discord in the family ; — a source of cor- 
ruption to her children." 

Afraid that mothers should know science ! — should know 
history ! — their history for twelve hundred years ! ! — and of course 
afraid of the free school system which teaches history, and en- 
ables all to read history for themselves. Thus our free school 
system stands directly in the way of carrying out the true 
spirit of Popery in our land. 



In 1868, Mary Ann Smith, a girl sixteen years of age, was 
imprisoned in the city of New York for becoming a Protestant. 
She was made to work and sleep among abandoned women. She 
was kept in durance vile by the decision of a New York Judge, 
after another Judge, who granted a writ of habeas corpus, had 
declared that " no father had a right to place his daughter in 
such circumstances," aud after the Catholic priest, who insti- 
gated the father to put her there, was compelled under oath 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 21 

to confess that it was done because she became a Protestant. 
See Christian World for Aug., 1868. 

The foregoing v/as simply a case of flagrant persecution for 
religious faith which a New York Judge encouraged and pro- 
tected. Is not this the Inquisition begun in the United States? 
Do such things teach us that Romanism becomes more liberal 
as it grows stronger in our land? 



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CARDINALS AND THEIR OATH. 



For the following relating to Cardinals and their functions 
we are indebted to Father Gavazzi's published lecture,: 

" Among the ecclesiastical titles are Bishop, Metropolitan, 
and Patriarch, but never Cardinal. Cardinals were never 
allowed among ecclesiastical dignitaries, and the apostolic 
succession looks fiercely against those intrusions. They are 
now what they always were, as laymen, dignitaries in ecclesi- 
astical disguise. They have certainly some name and office of 
a mixed nature, to appear ecclesiastic, but substantially they 
are as laymen. 

" When there was a single bishop of Rome there were also 
Curates of Rome, as the natural advisers of their Bishop. 
"When the bishop of Rome became a temporal King, then were 
these curates changed into Cardinals, assigned a red cloak 
aud hat, — as were the ancient Roman pagan Senators, the 
Councillors of the Roman Emperor, — made princes and only 
secular princes, and styled ' Princes of the Holy Roman Em- 
pire.' 

" Before Joseph II. and Leopold of Austria, they called 
themselves by that precise title, aud when the ' Holy Roman 
Empire' was extinguished by Joseph and Leopold, then 
they were styled ' Princes of the Church.' Before the time of 
Pius VII., the Cardinals were not strictly obliged to be conse- 
crated, and many among the Cardinals were not priests at all. 
Cardinal Albaxi was Cardinal for many years without any 
order of priesthood. Cardinal Belvidere, after many years of 
Cardinalship, legally married a beautiful lady, because he was 
completely a layman. Is the Cardinalship an ecclesiastical, or 
is it a lay dignity ? I answer, quite fearlessly, it is a Jay 
dignity, under priestly dresses, with claims to princely aristoc- 
racy, and to the honors of princes. 

" The next question is, what is the function of a Cardinal ? 
Supposing one in America, what will he do here ? A Cardinal 
in America will be what Wiseman is in England, an emissary 
and spy, and an inquisitor for the King of Rome ! You will not 
believe me, but I always have my proof. Here is the oath 



22 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

administered to and taken by Cardinals when they become 
Cardinals. I was often present when the Cardinal, kneeling 
before the Pope, took this solemn oath. J will not read it all, 
but three distinct propositions which fully prove my state- 
ments. 

" First — ' I will by every way, and by every means, strive to 
preserve, augment, and advance the rights, honors, privileges, 
the authority of the Holy Roman Bishop, our Lord the Pope, 
and his before-mentioned successors.' 

" Therefore the Cardinal is au emissary for the Pope. 

11 Second. — ( At whatever time anything shall be devised to 
their (the Popes') prejudice, which is not of my power to 
hinder, as soon as I shall know that any steps or measures have 
been taken in the matter, I will make it known to the same 
our Lord, or his before-mentioned successors, or to some other 
persons by whose means it may be brought to their know- 
ledge.' 

il Therefore the Cardinal is a spy for the Pope. 

"Third. — *I will seek out and oppose heretics, schismatics 
against the same our Lord the Pope, and his before-mentioned 
successors, with every possible effort.' 

" Therefore the Cardinal is an inquisitor for the Pope." 



In 1850, the British minister at Turin furnished Lord Pal- 
Merston with an authentic copy of the Cardinal's oath. The 
following passage from it will fully explain its scope and 
spirit : 

" I, , Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, do 

promise and swear that, from this time to my life's end, I will 
be faithful and obedient unto St Peter, the Holy Apostolic 
Roman Church, and our most Holy Lord the Pope, and his 
successors, canonically and lawfully elected; that I will give 
no advice, consent, or assistance against the Pontificial 
majesty and person ; that I will never knowingly or advisedly, 
to their injury or disgrace, make public the counsels intrusted 
to me by themselves, or by messengers or letters (from them ;) 
also, that I will give them any assistance in retaining, defend- 
ing, and recovering the Roman Papacy and the regalia of 
St. Peter with all my right and endeavor, so far as the rights 
and privileges of my order will allow it, and will defend 
against all, their honor and state; that I will direct and 
defend, with due form and honor, the legates and nuncios 
of the Apostolic See in the territories, churches, monaster- 
ies, and other benefices committed to my keeping; that I 
will cordially cooperate with them, and treat them with 
honor in their coming, abiding aud returning, and that I will 
resist unto blood all persons whatsoever who shall attempt any- 
thing against them ; that I will by every way and by every 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 23 

nieahs strive to preserve, augment, and advance the rights, 
honors, privileges, and authority of the Holy Roman Bishop, 
our Lord the Pope, and his before mentioned successors; and 
that at whatever time anything shall be decided to their pre- 
judice > which it is out of my power to hinder, as soon as I shall 
know that any steps or measures have been taken (in the 
matter,) I will make it known to the same our Lord, or his 
before-mentioned successors, or to some other person by whose 
means it may be brought to their knowledge. That I will 
keep and carry out, and cause others to keep and carry out, the 
rules of the Holy Father, the decrees, ordinances, dispensa- 
tions, reservations, provisions, apostolic mandates, and consti- 
tutions of the Holy Pontiff Sixtus of happy memory, as to 
visiting the thresholds of the apostles at certain prescribed 
times, according to the tenor of that which I have just read 
through. That I will seek out and oppose, persecute and fight 
against (Latin — omni conatu perseeuturum et impugnaturum) 
heretics, schismatics, against the same our Lord the Pope, and 
his before -mentioned successors, with every possible effort." 



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THE JESUITS. 



The order of the Jesuits dates from 1534. Its founder was 
Ignatius Loyola. To Romanists it is known as the " Society 
of Jesus." The society was originated to oppose the reformers 
of the sixteenth century, and their great aim has ever been to 
war against Protestantism, called in their language "the bad 
heresy." To further their schemes and purposes, they become 
all things to all men. Father Gavazzi says of them : u To ob- 
tain their end more easily, they have no particular dress, place, 
office, nor name ; so that you have Jesuits as Jesuits, Jesuits 
as Liguoiists, as Redemptionists, as Capucins and Newmanists. 
They are iu the dress of priests, of soldiers, of magistrates, of 
policemen, and so on." 

The institution of the Society of Jesus was confirmed by a 
bull of Pope Paul III. in 1540. At first the number was con- 
fined to sixty, but this restriction was removed in 1543. The 
society obtained great privileges from Popes Julius III., Pius 
V., and Gregory XIII. In turn the Jesuits have been the 
mainstay of the Papacy. Frederick the Great, of Prussia, 
called them the " Pope's grenadiers." Voltaire dubbed them 
the " pioneers of the Pope." By Niccolini they were styled 
the " mamelukes of the Pope." The Jesuits now dominate 
the Papal Church. They are its backbone, its soul and life. 
Of all the Romanist orders, none so heartily support the doc- 
trine of the Pope's infallibility as do the Jesuits. 



24 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

Now that members of the society are secretly and openly" 
engaged in efforts to extend its operations in the United States, 
American Protestants will do well to read and ponder the fol- 
lowing oath taken by all Jesuits. 

" I, A. B., now in the presence of Almighty God, the blessed 
Virgin Mary, the blessed Michael the Archangel, the blessed St. 
John the Baptist, the holy apostles St. Peter and St. Paul, and 
all the saints and sacred host of heaven, and to yon my ghostly 
father, do declare from my heart, without mental reservation, 

that his Holiness Pope is Christ's Vicar General, and is 

the trne and only Head of the Catholic or universal church 
throughont the earth ; and that by the virtue of the keys of 
binding and loosing, given to his Holiness by my Saviour Jesus 
Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, 
commonwealths, and governments, all being illegal without his 
sacred confirmation, and that they ma y safely be destroyed : there- 
fore, to the utmost of my power, I shall and will defend this 
doctrine, and his Holiness' right and customs, against all 
usurpers of the heretical (or Protestant; authority whatsoever; 
especially against the now pretended authority and Church of 
England, and all adherents, in regard that they and she be 
usurpal and heretical, opposing the sacred mother church of 
Rome. I do renounce and disown any allegiance as due to any her- 
etical Mng, prince, or state, named Protestants, or obedience to any of 
their inferior magistrates or officers, I do further declare that the 
doctrine of the Church of England, of the Calvinists, Hu- 
guenots, and others of the name Protestants, to be damnable, 
and they themselves damned, and to be damned, that will not 
forsake the same. I do further declare, that I will help, assist, 
and advise all or any of his Holiness' agents in any place 
wherever I shall be, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, or in 
any other territory or kingdom I shall come to, and do my 
utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestants 1 doctrine, and to destroy 
all their pretended powers, regal or othemvise. I do further promise 
and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with, to 
assume any religion heretical, for the propagating of the 
mother church's interest, to keep secret and private all her 
agent's counsels, from time to time, as they entrust me, and 
not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing, or cir- 
cumstance whatsoever, but to execute all that shall be pro- 
posed, given in charge, or discovered unto me, by you, my 
ghostly father, or any of this sacred convent. All which I, A. 
B., do swear by the blessed Trinity, aud blessed Sacrament, 
which I am now to receive, to perform, and on my part to keep 
inviolably : and do call all the heavenly and glorious host of 
heaven to witness these my real intentions, to keep this my 
oath. In testimony hereof, I take this most holy and blessed 
Sacrament of the Eucharist; and witness the same further with 
my hand and seal; in the face of this holy convent; &c. 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 25 

That the " Society of Jesus " has been found dangerous to 
civil government and the good order of States is evidenced by 
the expulsion of its members from almost every civilized coun- 
try on the face of the globe. 

In France the Society was condemned by the Sorbonne in 
1854. It was expelled in 1594 and re-admitted in 1604. In 1764 
it was again expelled and its property confiscated. It was ex- 
pelled the third time in 1831, and again in 1845. 

The Jesuits were expelled from England in 1579, 1581, 1586, 
1692 and 1829. 

The order was expelled from Venice in 1607 ; from Holland in 
1708 ; from Portugal in 1759 and 1834 ; from Spain in 1767, 1820 
and 1835; from Belgium in 1818; from Russia in 1820; from 
Sardinia and Austria in 1848 ; from Italy and Sicily in 1860, and 
from Germany in 1874. 

Pope Clement XIV. regarded the Society as full of danger 
and in 1769 suppressed it. It was restored by Pius VI. in 1814. 



" Americans, remember my words. Where their males can ob- 
tain nothing, their missions are conducted by females. Accord- 
ingly we ihld in America thousands and thousands of nuns. 
They go by all kinds of names; Ladies of the Sacred Heart of 
Jesus — they are Jesuitesses! Sisters of Mercy — Jesuitesses! 
Sisters of Charity — Jesuitesses!" — Gavazzi. 

Concerning the recent expulsion of the Jesuits from Germany, 
the New York World says : 

" The banishment of the Jesuits from Germany has appealed 
to the Catholic hospitality of other parts of the world, and the 
monastery at Quincy, Illinois, has generously tendered a refuge 
and home to two hundred of the expatriated priests. It is con- 
templated to convert Quincy into the headquarters of the order 
in the United States." 

Here we have two hundred foreigners vomited upon our shores 
to plot against civil and religious liberty, each of them having 
taken an oath renouncing and disowning any allegiance as due to 
any heretical king, prince, or State named Protestants, or obedience 
to any of their inferior magistrates or officers; and further, that 
they will do their utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestants' doc- 
trine, and to destroy all their pretended powers, regal or otherwise, 

" The Jesuits have sixteen colleges distinctively their own in 
the United States, and their emissaries are in chairs of instruc- 
tion in many institutions not suspected of being under their con- 
trol. The actual sworn numbers of the order in the United 
States and Canada, in 1874, was 1,062, of whom 251 were m the 
missions of New York and Canada." — Methodist Advocate, 



26 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

THE PAPAL BISHOPS. 



When Roman Catholic Bishops receive the pallium they are 
obliged to take an oath containing the following obligation : 

" Heretics, schismatics, and rebels to the said Lord the Pope, 
or his aforesaid successors, I will to the uttermost of my power, 
persecute and wage war with, so help me God and these holy 
Gospels of God."— Ponlificial Bomanum. 



There are in the United States seven Archbishops and fifty- 
seven bishops, each and all of whom have sworn to persecute 
and wage war against Protestants. 



All Catholic newspapers published in the United States speak 
only by inspiration of the Bishops, hence we have the Western 
Catholic saying: 

" Whenever any law of man, whether relating to spiritual or 
temporal affairs, conflicts with any law of God, as it is inter- 
preted to the world by the infallible Pope of Rome, it is to be 
disobeyed and the latter is to be substituted for it." 



The foregoing is in accord with the teachings of M. Capel, 
whom Roman Catholics accept as a standard of authority. He 
says : " The ecclesiastical power is superior to the civil, and de- 
fines the limit of one and the other." 



Bishop Gilmer is a little more politic than other of his breth- 
ren, but it must be remembered that "all are tarred with the 
same stick." "We must learn," says the Bishop, " that we are 
Catholics first and citizens next Catholicity does not bring us in 
conflict with the State, yet it teaches that God is above man, 
and the Church above the State." 



Nothing short of turning over the whole country and its gov- 
ernment to the Papacy will satisfy the Roman hierarchy. Arch- 
bishop Bayley, in his pastoral letter of February 6, 1875, 
bewails the good old times preceding the French revolution, 
when to have sent a child to school where religious teachings 
were excluded would have been regarded as virtual apostacy ; 
when mixed marriages were almost unknown, and when there 
was not such license as is now granted to the young in the com- 
pauy they kept, the books and newspapers they read, and the 
places of amusement they visited, and when the standard of 
duty and practice was higher than now. He sums up the whole 
with the declaration : " We must return to the old path." 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL.' 27 

Aye, let us return to the old path marked out by the Fathers 
of the Republic — to the days when patriotism would not have 
permitted bishops or priests to teach treason to the government, 
or plot the downfall of civil and religious liberty. Will Ameri- 
can Protestants wake up to a full sense of duty ? 

Here and there we find a Catholic priest possessing the man- 
liness and courage to denounce the high-handed conduct of the 
Bishops. Such an one is Father Stack. The following from 
his pen may be read with profit both by Catholics and Protest- 
ants : 

" The fact is, the Catholics of America — more than one-fifth 
of the population— are governed by absolute, irresponsible 
power, centered in the class of bishops, and wielded by them 
without regard of any law, civil or ecclesiastical. So supreme 
is the arbitrary will of every individual bishop within his 
diocese that there is no appeal from his fiat. The editor of the 
New York Freeman 1 8 Journal, who is himself a leader of Catholic 
thought, an able and fearless advocate of the Church, has, with 
more truth than irony, nicknamed these bishops 'the little Popes 
of America.' And a distinguished priest writing in the Free- 
man, 1889, describes them as i playing the triple role of judge, 
jury, and hangman/ Nor is the description overdrawn. These 
American bishops accuse and condemu, expel and suspend, ex- 
communicate and punish, without fear of accountability to any 
law. The forty-five hundred priests of America are reduced to 
a mere caste, and are so enslaved as to be mere tools in the 
hands of the bishops. The priests have no sort of representa- 
tion; they have no voice iu synod; none in the election or 
nomination of their masters, the bishops. Instead of holding 
their offiee for life, as the law of the Church guarantees, they 
are liable to be deprived of their rank and emoluments, and to 
be cast friendless upon the world by the caprice of the bishop's 
will. Their honor, their reputation, their livelihood, are at the 
mercy of the bishop. I might say their very life is at his 
mercy, for if you deprive men of their means of living — and 
the avocation of a clergyman is the only one for which most 
of them are qualified — do you not virtually dsprive them of 
life? But has the priest no remedy iu the Church? He has, 
and he has not. He has, dejure; and he has not de facto. The 
law of the Church juovides for an ecclesiastical tribunal to try 
and adjudicate iu all differences between priests and bishops. 
But the bishop interposes his non placet, and will not allow any 
such thing as an ecclesiastical tribunal in America. What, 
then, is left to the priest but to have recourse to civil law to 
enforce his rights of contract with the Church. And yet if he 
so falls back on his citizenship, he is likely to get excommuni- 
cated for his pains. The priests are slaves, and, at the same 
time, the instruments of the enslaving power. They are the 



28 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

men who move among the people, and talk to them and ex- 
ecute among them the orders of the bishops. There is not a 
Catholic* paper in America that can afford to strike out, with 
any hope of success, independently of the bishops. No Cath- 
olic dares to sue a bishop except at the peril of his soul's sal- 
vation, and thus Catholics are practically debarred, as far as 
bishops are concerned, from enjoying the common rights of 
citizenship. The law of the land might as well be blotted out 
when there is a question among Catholics of power of bishops." 



"The power of the Eoman Catholic Bishops of America is a 
tyranny within the Church and a standing danger to the liberties 
of the country." — Father Stack. 

"I am no prophet, and I am not anxious to hazard a proph- 
ecy, but I am bold to say that I anticipate contention and 
angry strife from the relation of the Catholic Church, under 
the sway of bishops, to the American Republic." — Father Stack. 

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ROMISH PRIESTS' OATH. 



The following is the form of oath which is taken at May- 
nooth College, in Ireland, by the students when inducted into 
the Romish priesthood. A large portion of the Irish Roman 
Catholic priests in the United States were educated at May- 
nooth, and of course have taken the oath : Read it. 

" I, A. B., do acknowledge the ecclesiastical power of his ho- 
liness and the mother Church of Rome, as the chief head and 
matron above all pretended churches throughout the whole 
earth ; and that my zeal shall be for St. Peter and his success- 
ors, as the founder of the true and ancient Catholic faith, 
against all heretical kings, princes, states, or powers repug- 
nant unto the same ; and although 1, A. B., may follow, in case 
of persecution, or otherwise, to be heretically despised, yet in 
soul and conscience I shall hold, aid, and succor the mother 
church of Rome, as the true, ancient and apostolic church. I, 
A. B., further do declare not to act or control any matter or 
thing prejudicial unto her, in her sacred orders, doctrines, 
tenets, or commands, without leave of its supreme power or its 
authority, under her appointed or to be appointed ; and being so 
permitted then to act, and further her interests more than my 
own earthly good and pleasure, as she and her Head, his Holi- 
ness, and his successors have, or ought to have, the supremacy 

*"I never think of publishing any thing in regard to the Church, 
without submitting my articles to the Bishop for inspection, approval, 
and endorsement.' —JBrownson, in his Review. 



ANTI PAPAL MANUAL. 29 

over all kings, princes, estates, or powers whatsoever, either to deprive 
them of their crowns, sceptres, powers, privileges, realms, countries, 
or governments, or to set up others in lieu thereof, they dissenting 
from the mother church and her commands." 



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THE ROMISH CURSE. 



The following curses constitute a part of the form of exeom- 
muuication pronounced by the Romish ecclesiastical authori- 
ties against persons who leave the Romish connection to join 
an evangelical church : 

" By the authority of God Almighty, the Father, Son and 
Holy Ghost, and the undehled Virgin Mary, mother and pa- 
troness of our Saviour, and of all celestial virtues, Angels, 
Archangels, Thrones, Dominions, Powers, Cherubim and Sera- 
phim; and of all the holy Patriarchs, Prophets, and of all the 
Apostles and Evangelists, of the Holy Innocents, who in the 
sight of the Holy Lamb are found worthy to sing the new 
song of the Holy Mnrtyrs, the Holy Confessors, and of all the 
Holy Virgins, and of all Saints, together with the Holy elect 

of God; — May he be damned. We excommunicate aud 

anathematize him, from the threshold of the Holy Church of 
God Almighty : We sequester him, that he may be tormented, 
disposed, and be delivered over with Dathan and Abiram, aud 
with those who say unto the Lord, ' Depart from us, we desire 
none of thy ways 7 ; as a fire is quenched with water, so let the 
light of him be put out for evermore, unless it shall repent him, 
and make satisfaction. Amen I 

u May the Father who creates man, curse him ! May the Son, 
who suffered for us, curse him ! May the Holy Ghost, who is 
poured out in baptism, curse him ! May the Holy Cross, which 
Christ for our salvatiou, triumphing over his enemies, ascended, 
curse him ! 

" May the Holy Mary, ever Virgin and Mother of God, curse 
him ! May St. Michael, the Advocate of the Holy Souls, curse 
him! May all the Angels, Principalities and Powers, and all 
Heavenly Armies curse him ! May the glorious band of the Pa- 
triarchs and Prophets curse him ! 

44 May St. John the Precursor, and St. John the Baptist, 
and St. Peter, and St. Paul, and St. Andrew, and all other of 
Christ's Apostles together, curse him ! and may the rest of the 
Disciples and Evangelists, who by their preaching converted the 
universe, and the holy and wonderful company of Martyrs and 
Confessors, who hy their works are found pleasing to God Al- 
mighty — may the holy choir of the Holy Virgins, who for the 
honor of Christ have despised the things of the world, damn 
him ! May all the saints from the beginning of the world to 



30 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

everlasting ages, who are found to be beloved of God, damn him ! 

" May he be damned wherever he be, whether in the house or 
in the alley, in the woods or in the water, or in the church ! 
May he be cnrsed in living and dying ! 

" May he be cursed iu eating and drinking, in being hungry, 
in being thirsty, in fasting, and sleeping, in slumbering, and in 
sitting, in living, in working, in resting, and * * * *, and in 
blood-letting ! 

" May he be cursed in all the faculties of his body ! 

u May he be cursed inwardly and outwardly ! May he be 
cursed in his hair ; cursed be he in his brains and his vertex, in 
his temples, in his eyebrows, in his cheeks, and in his jaw-bones, 
in his nostrils, in his teeth and grinders, in his lips, in his 
shoulders, in his arms, in his fingers! 

" May he be damned in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart 
and purtenances, down to the very stomach ! 

" May he be cursed in his reins and his groins; in his thighs, 
in his genitals, and his hips, and in his knees, his legs aud his 
feet, and toe-nails ! 

" May he be cursed in all his joints and articulation of the 
members ; from the crown of his head to the soles ot his feet 
may there be no soundness ! 

" May the Son of the living God with all the glory of his 
majesty, curse him ! And may heaven, with all the powers that 
move thereiu, rise up against him, and curse and damn him; 
unless he repent and make satisfaction ! Amen ! So be it. Be 
it so. Amen ! " 

Hitherto the reader may have doubted whether Roman Cathol- 
icism was hostile to the Gospel, or to the interests of humanity. 
If so, remember that in these oaths and curses you have authen- 
tic documents by which to enlighten your judgment and deter- 
mine your views. No honest minded man, be he Protestant or 
Catholic, can deny that the foregoiug oaths and curses are not 
at variance with patriotism, philanthropy and the true spirit 
of Bible teachings. 



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THE STATE AND CHRISTIANITY. 

o 

" Our fathers desired to create on this soil a nation of which 
God would be the soul and centre ; the radiating point of in- 
fluence that would shape our government, character, schools, 
families, literatute, and mould the whole social and domestic 
condition of the people." — i?. W. Clark, D. D. 



" There is nothing that we look for with more certainty than 
this general principle, that Christianity is part of the law of the 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 31 

land. This was the case among the Puritans of England, the 
Episcopalians of the Southern States, the Pennsylvania 
Quakers, the Baptists, the mass of the followers of Whitefield 
and Wesley, and the Presbyterians — all — all brought and all 
adopted this great truth and all have sustained it. And where 
there is any religious seutiment among men at all, this sen- 
timent incorporates itself with the law. Everything declares it." 
— Daniel Webster. 



" The dead prove it as well as the living. The generation 
that is gone before speak to it, and pronounce it from the 
tomb ! We feel it! All, all, proclaim that Christianity — gen- 
eral, tolerant Christianity — Christianity independant of sects 
and pirties — that Christianity to which the sword and faggot 
are unknown — general, tolerant Christianity, is the law of the 
land." — Daniel Webster. 



"It is impossible for those who believe iu the truth of 
Christianity as a divine revelation to doubt that it is the 
special duty of government to foster it among all the citizens 
and subjects." — Judge Story, on the Constitution. 



" The attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter 
of State policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have 
created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation." 
— Judge Story } on the Constitution. 



" If America, free above all nations, sustained amidst the 
trials which have covered the earth with burning and slaught- 
er, and enlightened by the fullest knowledge of the Divine 
will, refuse fidelity to the compact by which those matchless 
privileges have been given, her condemnation will neither be 
distant nor delayed. But. if she faithfully repel this deepest of all 
crimes, and refuse to place Popery side by side with Christi- 
anity, there may be no bound to the sacred magnificence of her 
preservation." — T. P. Akers. 



" Our ancestors established their system of government on 
morality and religious sentiment Moral habits, they believed, 
cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious 
principles, nor any government be secure which is not support- 
ed by moral habits. Living under the heavenly light of revela- 
tion, they hoped to find all the social dispositions, all the duties 
which men owe to each other and to society, enforced and per- 
formed. Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them 
good citizens," — Daniel Webster. 



32 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

u We are bound to maintain public liberty, and by the ex- 
ample of our own systems, to convince the world that order 
and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the 
rights of persons, and the rights of property may all be pre- 
served and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a govern- 
ment entirely and purely elective." — Daniel Webster, 



" Give civil and religious liberty, you give everything, — 
knowledge and science, heroism and honor, virtue and power. 
Deny them, and you deny everything." — Wm. Smyth. 



"When we decide that the, wisdom of our revolutionary 
fathers was foolishness, and their piety wickedness, and destroy 
the only system of self-government that has ever realized the 
hopes of the friends of freedom, and commanded the respect of 
mankind, it becomes us to wait patiently untiL the purposes of 
the Latter Day Saints shall be revealed to us." — Stephen A. 
Douglas. 

" That their trust was in Him, is manifested by the remarks 
that were continually breaking from the lips of the patriots. 
Thus, the patriot Hawley, when jjressed upon the inequality of 
the contest, could only answer : " We must put to sea — Provi- 
dence will bring us into port;" and Patrick Henry, when 
urged on the same topic, exclaimed : ' True, true ; but there is a 
God above, who rules and overrules the destinies of nations.'" — 
Wm. Wirt. 



"Above all it is my prayer that, as long as our posterity shall 
continue to inhabit these mountains and plains, and hills and 
valleys, they may be found living under the sacred institutions 
of Christianity."— #. W. Hilliard. 



"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political 
prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain 
would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should 
labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, the 
purest props of the duties of men and of citizens." — George 
Washington. 

Judge Duncan, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in a 
judicial decision, says : "Christianity is and always has been a 
part of the common law" of that State. In continuation, he 
adds : " It is impossible to administer the laws without taking 
the religion which the defendant in error has scoffed at — 
that Sciipture which he has reviled — as their basis." 



ANTI PAPAL MANUAL. 33 

(i Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined edu- 
cation upon minds of a peculiar structure, reason and experience 
both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in 
exclusion of the religious principle." — George Washington. 



"Nothing can be conceived more abhorrent to true religion than 
the hypocritical pretensions of kings, princes, rulers, and magis- 
trates, to uphold her holy course by their unholy violence." — 
William Gaston. 



"No law in this country, which does violence to Christi- 
anity, can be rightfully enacted by Congress, or by any State 
legislature; nor would such a law, if enacted, bind the 
consciences of the people. No judicial decision, inconsistent 
with the Bible, can be, according to the supreme law of the 
land, or morally, obligatory." — Charles Hodge, D. D. 



" What we declare to the whole country, and to the world, 
is, that the American government is solemnly bound to train 
up American citizens. Ifthisisnot the plainest of political 
axioms, then I know not what is plain. If this interferes with 
any man's rights or conscience, such a person can retire to 
Mexico, Spain, or Italy, where his rights and conscience may 
harmonize with the government, and the society." — B. W. 
Clark, D. D. 



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VOICES OF THE PAST. 

u If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, 
they will fall by the hands of the Romish clergy." — Lafayette. 



"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure 
you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people 
ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience 
prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of 
republican government." — George Washington. 



" I hope we may find some means, in future, of shielding our- 
selves from foreign influence, — political, commercial, or in 
whatever form it may he attempted. I wish there were an ocean 
of fire between this and the Old World." — Thomas Jejfwson. 



"Foreign influence is a Grecian horse to the Republic; we 
cannot be too careful to exclude its entrance." — James Madison, 



34 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

" It is true, we should become a little more Americanized." — 
Andrew Jackson, 



" The gravestones of almost every former republic warn us 
that a high standard of moral rectitude, as well as of intelli- 
gence, is quite indispensable to communities, in their public 
doings, as to individuals, if they would escape from either de- 
generacy or disgrace," — Levi Woodbury, 



"What rights of a citizen will be deemed inviolable when a 
State renounces the principles that constitute their security ? 
Or if his life should not be invaded, what would its enjoyment 
be in a country odious in the eyes* of strangers, and dishonored 
in his own." — Fisher Ames, 



" I have no fears for the permanency of our Union whilst our 
liberties are preserved." — Henry Clay, 



" This glorious liberty, these benign institutions, the dear 
purchase of our fathers, are ours ; ours to enjoy, ours to pre- 
serve, ours to transmit. Generations past and generations to 
come, hold us responsible for the sacred trust. Our fathers 
from behind admonish us with their anxious paternal voices, 
posterity calls out to us from the bosom of the future, the world 
turns hither its solicitous eye, — all, all conjure us to act wisely 
and faithfully in the relation which we sustain." — Daniel 
Webster, 



"In the American Revolution, no man sought or wished for 
more than to defend and enjoy his own. None hoped for plun- 
der or for spoil. Rapacity was unknown to it; the axe was not 
among the instruments of its accomplishment ; and we all know 
that it could not have lived a single day under any well-found- 
ed imputation of possessing a tendency adverse to the Christian 
religion" — Daniel Webster, 



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THE BIBLE. 

11 The Bible is the ligature of souls, and the great instrument 
of the conservation of bodies politic." — Jeremy Taylor, 

The principles of Christianity, deeply engraven in the heart, 
would be infinitely more powerful than the false honor of 
monarchies, the human virtues of republics, or the servile fears 
of despotic states." — Montesquieu, 



anti-paPaL manual. 35 

11 The Bible is a book of faith and a book of doctrine ; but it 
s also a book which teaches man h is individual responsibility, 
lis own dignity, and his equality with his fellow man." — Dan- 
el Webster. 



11 Protestantism is a protest against the tyranny of man, on 
the basis of the authority of God. It proclaims the Bible to be 
the only infallible rule of Christian faith and practice." — Dr. 
Schaff. 

"This is Bible land, was so in the beginning, must be so for- 
ver. Out of a free gospel has come all of grace and strength 
we possess. Its spirit lives in all our good laws, our educational 
utilities, our institutions of benevolence, making life and prop- 
erty secure, giving every man a fair chance, lifting up and bless- 
ing the downtrodden and oppressed." — Rev. E. M. Alwood. 



" The Bible is the bulwark of right, the champion of free- 
dom, the pillar and ground of the truth, the friend and helper 
of mankind. It stands between the oppressed and the oppres- 
sor the weak, the abused, the defenceless and the powerful, 
the dependent and the sordid or grasping, invariably to befriend 
the former and correct the latter." — Rev. W. H. Cudworth. 



" We may build up upon this soil a Pagan nation, upon the 
basis of idolatry or blank atheism. We may build up a papal 
despotism, upon the foundation of Popes and Cardinals, the 
inquisition being the chief corner-stone ; but we cannot build 
up and perpetuate a free Christian republic unless we make the 
Bible the foundation."— Rev. R. W. Clark, D. D. 



11 Where then lies the hope, in what consists the prosperity 
of all free nations ? Infallibly in the Bible ! Infallibly, I say, 
for there indeed, in the word of God, and there only is infalli- 
bility to be found." — Gavazzi. 



PAPAL HATRED OF THE BIBLE. 

In 1229 the Council of Toulouse forbade the reading of the 
Bible in any vernacular tongue, and decreed "that the laity 
must not possess the books of the Old and New Testament." 



At its session in 1406, the Synod of Oxford declared its hos* 
tilitj to an English translation of the Bible. 



36 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

In 1233 the Council of Terracona ordained that any priest; 
or layman who possessed a translation of the Bible and did uot 
within eight days surrender it to be burned, should be esteemed 
to be a heretic. 



The Council of Bologna, in Italy, prohibited the general 
reading of the Bible, and especially the Gospel of Christ. 

The Council of Trent decrees "that no Bible shall be held 
or read except by priests — that no Bible shall be sold without 
a license, except upon the pains and penalties of that mortal 
sin that is neither to be forgiven in this world or the next." — 
Father Paul Sarpis' History of the Council. 

This enactment of the Council of Trent has never been re- 
pealed. It has never been neglected, save where its enforce- 
ment would be glaringly inexpedient. It forbids any man to 
have even the Catholic version of the Scriptures in possession 
without a written permit of his priest. If he transgress, he is 
denied absolution till the book is surrendered. The book-seller 
who sells the Bible to such a man forfeits the value of the book 
and may be further punished. Members of religious orders can 
neither purchase or read the Scriptures without permission of 
their Superiors. 



Innocent III. issued a bull against the YValpenses, the 
first translators of the Bible into a vernacular tongue, and com- 
manded that all their books should be burned. 



Gregory VII. condemned the general freedom allowed to 
read the Bible in the vulgar tongue, while Clement II., in a 
bull, pronounced it a false, scandalous, blasphemous error to 
hold that all may read the Holy Scriptures. 



A translation of the Bible was opposed by Pope Benedict 
XIV. 



The reading of the Bible wan positively prohibited by tho 
famous bull Unigenitus. 



In the fourth rule of the Index Expurgatorious, by the bulls of 
Pius' IV and Clement VI II., Catholics are forbidden to read 
the Bible, without a special license granted to them, in writing, 
by the bishop or the fathers inquisitors. 

" To give the Bible to the laity is to cast pearls before swine. 
Bible translations have done harm. I would not have any." 
Cardinal Ho&ius. 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 37 

"It is utterly wrong to circulate the Scriptures in the vulgar 
tongue." — Archbishop Ximenes. 



All the late Popes— Pius VI., Pius VII., Leo XII., Pius VIII., 
Gregory XVI., Pius IX., no one excepted— all have forbidden 
the reading of the word of God. 



Under date of June 16, 1816, Pope Pius VII. addressed a 
letter to the Primate of Poland concerning Bible Societies, in 
which letter he says : " We have been truly shocked at this 
most crafty device (Bible Societies), by which the very founda- 
tions of religion are undermined. We have deliberated upon 
the measures proper to be adopted by our pontifical authority, 
in order to remedy and abolish this pestilence, as far as possible 
— this defilement of the faith so imminently dangerous to souls. 
It becomes episcopal duty that yon, first of all, expose the 
wickedness of this nefarious scheme. It is evident from experience 
that the Holy Scriptures, when circulated in the vulgar tongue, have 
through the temerity of men, produced more harm than benefit 
Warn the people entrusted to your care that they fall not into 
the snares prepared for their everlasting ruin." 



In 1844, Gregory XVI. fulminated a bull against the New 
York Christian Alliance for presuming to circulate the Bible, 
without note or comment, in different Papal countries. 

The last official act known to the world of this Pontiff, was 
dated May 8, 1844, in which for the second time he expresses 
his dread of the circulation of the Scriptures. With more elab- 
oration than is usual in such documents, the Pope points out all 
the dreaded evils, and renews his orders to his subordinates, to 
assist each other in zealously carrying out his decrees. Among 
other things his Holiness says : 

" Subsequently, when heretics still persisted in their frauds, 
it became necessary for Benedict XIV. to superadd the in- 
junction, that no versions (of the Bible) should be suffered to 
be read but those which should be approved by the Holy See, 
accompanied by notes from the writings of the Holy Fathers 
or other learned Catholic authors. 

"As for yourselves, my venerable brethren, called as you are 
to divide our solicitude, we recommend you earnestly in the 
Lord to announce and proclaim, in convenient time and place, 
to the people confided to your care, these apostolic orders, and 
to labor carefully to separate the faithful sheep from contagion 
of the Christian Alliance, from those who have become its 
auxiliaries, no less than those who belong to other Bible socie- 
ties, and from all who have any communication with them. 
You are consequently enjoined to remove from the hands of the faith- 



38 a:ntt-papal Manual. 

ful alike the Bibles in the vulgar tongue which may have heenprinted 
contrary to the decrees above mentioned of the Sovereign Pontiffs, aud 
every book proscribed and condemned, and see that they learn, 
through your admonition and authority, what passages are 
salutary, and what pernicious and mortal. Watch attentively 
over those who aie appointed to expound the Holy Scriptures, 
to see that they acquit themselves faithfully according to the 
capacity of their hearers, and that they dare not, uuder any pre- 
text whatever, interpret or explain the holy pages contrary to 
the tradition of the Holy Fathers, and to the service of the 
Catholic Church. 

" Let them know, then, the enormity of the sin against Gol 
and his Church, which they are guilty of who dare associate 
themselves with any of these societies, or abet them in any 
way. Moreover, we confirm aud renew the decrees recited 
above, delivered in former times by apostolic authority, against 
the publication , distribution, reading, and possession of books of the 
Holy Scriptures translated into the vulgar tongue" 



Pope Pius IX., treading in the footsteps of his predecessors, 
in 1846, anathematized the Bible Societies, and denounced them 
as u crafty and deceitful societies, which thrust the Bible into 
the hands of inexperienced youth." 



In the face of Councils, Synods, and Popes, by whom the 
common use of the Scriptures have been interdicted, American 
Papists have the hardihood to assert that Rome does not deny 
the Bible to its people, but u encourages them to read it, aud 
that not only in the United States, but in the whole world be- 
sides." Jesuitism never concocted a broader or bolder false- 
hood. How many Catholics in this country possess the Scrip- 
tures, or are permitted to read them ? Dr. Goodrich says : " A 
leading pastor from the West by personal inquiry found fourteen 
Bibles on hand in the three Catholic book-stores of Cleveland, 
Ohio, to meet the possible wants of a Catholic population of 
35,000, and one of these fourteen had just been returned because 
the owner had no further use for it. And lest it may be alleged 
that this dearth of supply in the book-stores was occasioned 
by previous sales, it may be stated that a careful canvass of 
the city by the Bible Society showed there, as it does in all our 
cities, that the Catholic population, as a body, rarely possess 
and do not read the Bible." 

Protestants, think of it! Fourteen Bibles to a population of 
35,000 Catholics, and, in the same ratio, 3,206 copies to a church 
boasting of 8,000,000 members, and these copies waiting sale. 
The fact is, Rome, here, as elsewhere, gives her subjects masses, 
transubstantiation, infallibility, purgatory, absolution, indul- 
gences; worship of images, relics of saints, invocation of 



ANTI-PAPAL MAKtTAt. 39 

Baints, works of supererogation, monasteries, nunneries, 
fine churches, holy processions, holy water, and holy wafers, 
but not the Bible. The Council of Trent sealed that book to 
the laity and the Popes have kept it closed. 



In the Christian Advocate of April 2, 1868, we have the fol- 
lowing testimony from Mr. A. E. Parks of Brooklyn, N. Y.: 

14 1 have tried to buy a Douay Bible at a Catholic book-store 
within two hundred yards of the Five Points, and, therefore, 
in the centre of a Catholic population ; but though there were 
abundance of Manuals, Paths to Paradise, Glories of Mary, 
Saints' Lives (I bought some of these for the sake of the mira- 
cles), Scapulars, Rosaries, Crucifixes, and so on, I could not 
obtain a Bible or a Testament of any sort, with or without 
notes. Failing here, I tried to purchase a cheap Bible at the 
Catholic Publishing House of Dunigan & Brother. I tried to 
get a low-priced octavo, announced on their catalogue. I could 
not buy one. And a second attempt, made regularly through 
another publishing house some weeks later, had the same 
result." 



In Murray's 44 Romanism at Home," 1858, we find the follow- 
ing: "There is no Bible in Rome. I made many inquiries 
there for a Bible, but without success. The people have no 
Bible. They know nothing about it. An intelligent man of 
fifty told me that he never saw one. Multitudes of the priests 
know nothing about it. And when asked why they have none 
for sale, the book-sellers will tell you it is prohibited." 



The Moral and Dogmatic Theology of Dr. Peter Dens has 
been, and so far as we can discover, is still a standard book for 
the education of priests both in Ireland and on the Continent 
of Europe. It sets forth in the most deliberate and careful 
manner the law of his church on the use of the Scriptures. 
We quote as follows : 

44 Question.— Is the reading of Holy Scripture lawful for all? 

44 Answer. — 1. The Church does not, by any decree, prohibit 
the reading of Holy Scripture in the Hebrew, Greek or Latin 
language, even to laymen 

" 2. The reading of Holy Scripture in the vulgar tongue is 
not absolutely prohibited by the Church to laymen or to persons 
of any condition, but she does not allow it except with great 
caution. 

" This rule of the Church, which had already been received 
by usage in particular churches, was established for the universal 
church by Rule Fourth of the Index at the conclusion of the 
Council of Trent, in these words ; 



4$ A^TI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

Ul Experience having proved that the reading of the Holy 
Scriptures, granted without discretion to everybody, does more 
barm than good because of the rashness of men. It will thence- 
forth depend on the judgment of the Bishop, or of the Inquisi- 
tor, to grant, according as he may be advised by the parish 
priest or confessor, leave to read those books, translated into 
the vulgar tongue by Catholic authors, to those who they know 
can derive from them nothing prejudicial to faith and piety. 
That permission ought to be given in writing. Whoever shall not 
be furnished with it, and who, nevertheless, shall have pre- 
sumption to read or to possess the Scriptures, shall not have 
it in his power to obtain the absolution of his sin, if he shall 
not have previously handed them'over to the Bishop. 

u 'Book-sellers, however, who shall sell or otherwise dispose of 
Bibles in the vulgar tongue, to any person not having such per- 
mission, shall forfeit the value of the books, to be applied by 
the Bishop to some pious use, and shall be subjected by the 
Bishop to such other penalties as he shall judge proper, accord- 
ing to the quality of the offence. 

" ' Members of the regular clergy shall neither read nor pur- 
chase such Bibles without a special license from their superiors/ 

" Moreover, if you except some point, such as the license to 
be obtained being in wilting, the surrender of the Bible being 
made before absolution, and being made to the Bishop, the 
observance of this law is severely enforced by the Bishops of 
Catholic Belgium [where the author was living and teaching]. 

"Indeed, the law is received, and to this very time is observed — 
with some variations to suit the temper of different countries— in by 
far the greatest part of the Catholic world— in fact in the whole 
world that is purely Catholic. It is only where Catholics 

LIVE AMONG HERETICS THAT GREATER INDULGENCE IS AL- 
LOWED." 



THE PAPACY AND FREE SCHOOLS. 

" One thing is certaiu : Archbishops and Bishops may be mul- 
tiplied, and priesis ordained, and the thousands of churches 
built ; but if our Bishops do not, following the Vicar of Christ, 
forbid Catholics sendiug their children to Godless schools, in 
fifty years from now the Catholic Church in the United States 
will be a shrivelled and ghastly skeleton — a dry waste after a 
wave of European emigration — a scattered nock that false 
shepherds fed and fattened on, and left unsheltered from the 
wolves/' — Freeman! s Journal. 



" The public schools have produced nothing but a Godless 
generation of thieves aud blackguards." — Priest Schauer* 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 41 

11 Let the public school system go to where it came from — 
the devil. We want Christian schools, and the state cannot 
tell us what Christianity is." — Freeman's Journal, 



The following is from the sermon of an Irish Jesuit, preached 
in the city of New York : 

" Woe, woe be to the parents who send their children to 
these public schools ! Woe be to those who secretly favor them 
in their hearts ! I would not like to be in their places on the 
day of judgment. The public schools are the nurseries of 
vice; they are Godless schools, and they who send their child- 
ren to them can not expect the mercy of God. They ought not 
to expect the sacraments of the Church in their dying mo- 
ments. I hope you and I will live to see the day when it will 
be understood that parents who commit this great sin will be 
refused the sacraments of the Church. 'What! let them die 
without the rites of the Church V you will ask. Yes; I say 
so. I would as soou administer the sacraments to a dog as such 
Catholics."— Father Walker. 



" We will take it for granted that the reporter conveyed 
faithfully the substance of Father Walker's remarks. Most 
likely he did, for it is only what has been said by the Bishops of 
all the world over and over again, in their pastorals. And we 
heartily indorse it." — Tablet, of New York. 



" When Catholic parents understand that they cannot have 
absolution in the confessionals while they let their children go 
to Godless or to Protestant schools, they will soon find a reme- 
dy." — Freeman's Journal. 

11 The present system of public schools brands Catholic faith 
as a crime, and the American State punishes it yearly by tines equal 
in the amount to the sum which Catholics are compelled to ex- 
pend, after the payment of* school tax, upon the education of 
their children. The American school Jaw is a penal enactment 
against the Catholic religion, originating and perpetuated in 
the same spirit that has driven the educating orders of the 
Church from the soil of Germany." — Catholic Telegraph, Cincin- 
nati. 



In 1867, February 17, Mr. McGuire, Irish member of the 
British Parliament, addressing a great audience in the Boston 
Theatre, stigmatized the Massachusetts free-school system as 
an insult to Roman Catholics, and urged his hearers to demand 

* The mass of Catholics in the United States are to be found among the 
poorer classes of people. How much tax do they pay ? 



42 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

sectarian schools, One year later, the Catholic World claimed 
that their church schools ought to he endowed hy the State, 
leaving the selection of hooks and teachers to the priest. The 
Legislature of the great State of New York ho wed down and 
said, Amen! — that's right — we will do it, and voted seventy 
thousand dollars ($7^,000) for the distinctively Papal schools of 
the cities of New York and Brooklyn. 



" We demand of the State, as our right, either such schools 
as our Church will accept, or exemption from the school tax. 
If it will support schools by a geueral tax, we demand that it 
provide or give us our portion of the public funds, and leave 
us to provide schools in which we can educate our children in 
our own religion, under the supervision of our own Church. 
We hold education to be a function of the Church, and not of 
the State; and, in our case, we do not, and will not, accept the 
State as educator." — Tablet, 



"Education is not the work of the State at all. It belongs 
to families, and to voluntary associations. The school tax is 
in itself an unjust imposition."— Freeman's Journal. 



One Mr. Lynch, a Roman Catholic citizen of New Orleans, 
has favored the public with a long letter on the question of 
driving the Bible out of the public schools, in which he says : 

"A Godless pack of knaves or fools have flooded our free- 
schools with copies of an English book, got up under the orders 
and auspices of King James I., a former sovereign of England. 
It is called the Bible, and purports to be a translation of the 
Holy Scriptures from the original Greek. Most of the editions 
of this book are stamped with the lion and the unicorn." 

This true son of the Church, imbued with the spirit which 
emanates from Rome, denounces the men who constitute and 
manage our Bible Societies, the Christian ministers of all de- 
nominations, the faithful teachers in our schools, colleges and 
seminaries, and the pious men and women who are engaged in 
circulating the Scriptures, as a Godless pack of knaves or fools ! 
And it is to appease such men as this foul-mouthed reviler that 
certain politicians and short-sighted Protestants would consent to 
have the Bible thrust out of our public schools. In such a case 
as this, American Protestants should concede nothing to any 
man animated by such a spirit as this Papal intolerant, Mr. 
Lynch. His language betrays the real feeling of those who 
would kick the Bible out of American schools. They hate and 
despise it, and would, if they could, prevent the whole people 
of this country from having access to it at all. - 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 43 

u The system of common schools, as now adopted in this 
country, is in the main an imitation of the system decreed by 
the Convention which sentenced Louis XVI. to the guillotine, 
abolished Christianity,* and declared death an eternal sleep. 
The object of the Convention was, by a system of Godless 
schools to root out religion from the Freuch mind, and to train 
up the Fren:h youth in absolute ignorance or unbelief in any 
life beyond this life, and any world that transcends the senses. 
If we adopt and carry out the same system, our American 
youth must grow up thoroughly unbelieving and Godless, as 
the order of the Cincinnati Board of Education directly fore- 
shadows. Catholics will do well to be on their guard against 
forming alliances to help them get rid of one evil by fastening 
on the country another and greater evil — the very evil the 
forever infamous Convention sought with devilish ingenuity 
to fasten on France." — Tablet 



Speaking for its co-religionists in the United States, the same 
Tablet in its issue for November 13, 1869, said : 

" The Protestant may have state schools or Godless schools, 
if he wants them ; but as we cannot in conscience send our 
children to them, to be equally free with Protestants, the 
State must either not tax us at all, or give us our proportion 
of money raised, to be expended in schools under the control of 
the Church. 

" Protestantism is born of hatred of God, a revolt against 
Christ and his Church, and would have to abdicate its own 
nature to seek to deprive Catholics of their religious freedom, 
and to suppress, by aid of the State, the Church of God. 

"The very breath of their life, the very reason of their be- 
ing, is hostile to her, because she is faithful to Christ, and 
cherishes His meek and lowly spirit. How hollow, then, and 
hypocritical must be all their professions of religious liberty! 
She represents God on earth ; they represent Satan and the 
world, and how can they bo otherwise than at enmity with 
her? 

" We are in this country the asserters aud defenders of the 
rights of God, and we shall assert and defend them by all law- 
ful means to the full extent of our power, without their leave 
or license." 



The same Eoman Catholic expounder says : 

"The schools of a nation, next to the' domestic fireside, are 
the foundations of its character and greatness. With the poor, 
in fact, the schools are required to supplant, to a certain de- 
gree, the influences of the domestic hearth. Hence, it has 
always been a cardinal doctrine, in the economy of the Catholic 

* Popery. 



44 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

Church, to incorporate religious instruction with the daily 
secular teachings in its schools." 



Referring to the action of the Cincinnati School Board in ex- 
cluding the Bible from the public schools of that city, the 
Western Watchman, a Roman Catholic paper, published in St. 
Louis, triumphantly says : 

" The much vexed question of Bible reading in the public 
schools of Cincinnati is at length settled. . . . The resolu- 
tion of the board is sweeping ; and not only is the Bible ex- 
cluded, but all hymns, prayers, and whatever else savors of 
religion. Books, too, in which Christianity is taught, must be 
replaced or expurgated, and no vestige of religious truth can 
be allowed to disgrace the hallowed precincts of the school- 
room. Protestants, for the first time in the history of our State 
school system, are taught that no religion, not even that weak 
dilution of it which we call Puritanism, is compatible with the 
well-being of their much extolled institution. Our school in- 
struction must be purely materialistic. If the name of the 
Author of Christianity is mentioned at all, He must be spoken 
of as one of the men who figured prominently in history, as we 
would speak of Mohammed, Julius Caesar, or Napoleon. Un- 
der no circumstances may we hint to the child that the great 
preacher and teacher was God. We may not even tell him 
that he has a soul, or that there is any code of morality outside 
the statutes of the city and the records of the Police Courts. 
There must be nothing in the character or surroundings of our 
schools which might offend a Jew, a Mohammendan, a disciple 
of Confucius, or a common infidel. Our State has no religion, 
and our schools can have none." 

What is this but blank Atheism ? Will American Protest- 
ants accept such a creed I 



A papistical correspondent of the Piqua Journal gives the 
following blast : 

" The Catholics cannot make use of the public schools be- 
cause the main requisite of a good education is wanting — 
namely, religion, which is the foundation of all virtue ; and 
therefore, 

" They desire to be released from the taxes for schools to which 
they cannot conscientiously send their children. 

" The Catholics believe and hold that the children belong in 
the first place to God, secondly to the parents, aud then thirdly 
to the State, and consequently the State has neither the right 
nor much less the duty to educate the children, but this right 
and duty belong exclusively to the parents." 



ANTI -PAPAL MANUAL. 45 

" When I see them drag from me the children, the poor little 
children, and give them an infidel education, it breaks my 
heart." — Pope Pius IX, 



" A great plea of Papists in this country is that children are 
educated here without religion. They wish to train their own 
young, and as many as possible of ours, in order to preserve 
them from infidelity and immorality. The same cry was re- 
cently raised in France, and the Bishop of Orlsans was especi- 
ally urgent that the young of France should be brought up 
' on the knees of the Church.' A sweet image, certainly ; but 
what does it mean ? What instruction does the Roman Catho- 
lic Church in France give the young ? I have before me the 
catechism approved by French Bishops. There are questions 
in it which it would shock any American mother to have read 
in her children's hearing. 1 quote one question of another 
sort: 'Is one always guilty of robbery when he takes the 
property of another? No. It may happen that he whose 
goods he takes has no right to object. For instance, when he 
who takes the property of another is in extreme necessity, and 
must avail himself of what he needs for deliverence; or/ and 
this is the most remarkable point in casuistry, l when he takes in 
secret of Ms neighbor by way of compensation, not being able other- 
wise to recover that which his neighbor justly, owes him.' 
That certainly is a fine specimen of a higher law." — Eev. Wm. 
H. Goodrich, D. Z). 



In connection with the foregoing, we quote from the Evange- 
list the opinion given the writer by a very candid Roman Catho- 
lic priest on the command, "Thou shalt not steal." The priest's 
view was "that the taking of small amounts, no matter how 
stealthily, was not within the scope of the command. Such were 
but 'venal,' not 'mortal.' " Being asked how small the amounts 
should be, he replied "so small that the one from whom it 
should be taken would not feel it." "Where theu is the limit 
beyond which the command comes into force?" "Oh, experi- 
enced priests are left each to his own discretion ; but the young 
men without experience, are taught in our schools that the 
matter of a pound in England, or five dollars in this country, 
is not worth minding — is only venal." 

Does the enlightened Protestantism of the Uuited States 
approve of such teaching? Shall the young be taught to be- 
come thieves as well as infidels ? If not, the time is now when 
the efforts of the Papacy to obtain control of the youth of our 
land should be resisted by every true friend of religion and 
true morals. 



46 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

AMERICAN vs. FOREIGN SENTIMENT 
o 

In his erer-memorable argument on the Girard College case, 
Feburary 20, 1844, that great statesman and jurist, Daniel 
Webster, said: u There is nothing original in this plan. It 
has its origin in a deistical source, but not from the highest 
school of infidelity. It is all idle, it is a mockery and an insult 
to common sense, to maintain that a school for tbe instruction 
of youth, from which Christian instruction by Christiau teach- 
ers is sedulously and vigorously shut out, is not deistical and 
infidel in its purpose and tendency." 



In continuation of his argument, Mr. Webster gave expres- 
sion to the following sentiments, which Americans will do 
well to remember : " It is vain to talk about the destructive 
tendency of such a system ; it is mere, sheer, low, vulgar deism 
and infidelity. It opposes all that is in heaven, and all on 
earth that is worth being on earth. It destroys the connecting 
link between the creature and the Creator; it opposes that 
great system of universal benevolence and goodness that binds 
man to his Maker. " * 



"Among the luminaries in the sky of New England, the 
burning lights which throw intelligence and happiness on her 
people, the first and most brilliant is her system of common 
schools. I congratulate myself that my first speech on enter- 
ing public life was in their behalf. Education, to accomplish 
the ends of good government, should be universally diffused. 
Open the doors of the school house to all the children in the 
land." — Daniel Webster. 



"For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man 
subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look 
not to the question, whether he himself have, or have not 
children to be benefitted by the education for which he pays. 
We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which 
property, and life, and the peace of society are secured. — 
Daniel Webster. 



" The American common school education is the essential 
condition of all that is valuable in our American citizenship 
and polity. It is consistent with them ; a part of tbe same 
machine — as one particular wheel is of its own engine, and of 
no other." — Voice to America, p. 204. 

♦The remarks of this great American Statesman will apply with terrific 
force to tbe papal opponents of our public school system. 



ANTI -PAPAL MANUAL. 47 

11 Our common schools are the only medium of the requisite 
education. These must be kept American in spirit, American 
in practice, American thoroughly, everywhere and always. 
The fanatics or the fools who would destroy our liberties by 
ousting from our schools the sources and preservatives of those 
liberties, with a wisdom like that of a man who should burn 
his own home over his head to warm his fingers, must be re- 
buked and silenced." — Voice to America, $. 211. 



"Our schools must remain public, free, democratic, uusecta- 
rian, and Christian. There is room for no hesitation in the 
matter ; the case is urgent." — Voice to America, p. 212. 



" Lay up these principles, then, in your hearts, and in your 
souls — bind, them f jr signs upon your hands, that they may be 
as frontlets between your eyes — teach them to your children, 
speaking of them when sitting in your houses, when walking 
by the way, when lying down and when rising up — write them 
upon the door-plates of your houses, and upon your gates — 
cling to them as to the issues of life — adhere to them as to the 
cords of your eternal salvation." — John Quincy Adams. 



" Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down, honored 
and cherished, to our children. Generations unborn shall en- 
joy its privileges as we have done ; and if we leave them poor 
in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth 
of its blessings." — Edward Everett. 

" And let us play the man for our God, and for the cities of 
our God ; while we are using the means in our power, let us 
humbly commit our righteous cause to the great Lord of the 
universe, who loveth righteousness and hateth iniquity." — 
John Hancock. 



u l The word in season ' — that word of which Solomon under- 
stood the beauty and the value, when he likened it to apples of 
gold in pictures of silver, — it is that which is to arrest error, 
rebuke falsehood, confirm faith, kindle patriotism, commend 
morality and religion, purify public opinion, and preserve the 
State."— Robert C. Winthrop. 



"Put the Bible in bonds, and you do deadly hurt to all that is 
best in our national life. We have a right to it in our legislatures, 
our schools, our homes. Let the people rise up and say, i Woe to 
the man or church that thinks to take it from us, in any of 
our relations or interests/ Let them swear a solemn oath, that 



48 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

that word which we studied at our mother's knee, which some 
friendly voice shall read over our new-made grave, that that 
word shall never be removed from the places of power in this 
land, while a voice is left to plead or a hand to strive." — Rev. 
E. M. Ativood. 

" If other books must be given up, let ifc be so, but never 
give up the Bible. Cling to that through all the chances at- 
tendant upon improved methods of instruction, and let it be 
the last book that shall be seen on the desk of the teacher or 
in the hands of the pupil. No Bible, no school, is my motto, — 
what I believe in, what I am determined to stand by. No Bi- 
ble, no school, — God's book first man's book afterwards." — Rev. 
W. H. Cudivorth. 



"The same influence which excludes the Bible would ex- 
clude the teacher who takes the Bible as a guide and the text- 
book which inculcates Bible truths. Such a course would take 
away the security the country rests upon. Make the United 
States infidel, as was France, and you gather together the gun- 
powder and fagots which only await ignition by some fauatic. 
A republic with sectarian schools ; sects educated separately ! 
The only practical aud safe way is to bring them together ia 
the public schools." — Rev. J. R. Suydam. 



" Our fathers built this nation upon the Bible. This sacred 
volume they placed in the family, the church, and the school. 
They knew, what every intelligent man knows, that the chief fact 
about any nation aud its ruling power, is its religion. This per- 
meates all other interests, shapes all other institutions ; makes 
the political, social, and domestic condition of the people." — 
Rev. Dr. Clark. 



iC The advantage to morals, religion, and good government, 
arising from the general diffusion of knowledge, being univer- 
sally admitted, permit me to recommend this subject to your 
deliberate attention." — Gov. Clinton, on Common Schools. 



" There is some ground already yielded that needs to be re- 
claimed and held. Put back the Bible and the prayer into 
every place from which it has been rejected by Komanist 
opposition. Without doubt there will be men euough with 
loose ideas of liberty, and without religion, who will join in 
the priestly cry of intolerance, and talk about the wrong of 
coerciug conscience. It is time that the doctrine was broached 
that Protestants have consciences, and some rights which Papists 
are bound to respect " — Rev. E. M. Atwood. 



Atff I-PAPAL MANUAL, 49 

" We must watch the professional politicians and the Catholic 
hierarchy, for when were the Jesuits at a loss for a plan ? If 
one fails, they adopt another. The Roman Catholic Church 
does not understand what this conflict may end in which they 
are provoking by their hostility to our public schools, but 
they should be taught that we will defend them with our 
ballots first, and with our bayonets afterwards, if need be." — 
Bev. Mr. Hunger, 

"Next to the Church of Christ, the common school is the 
greatest agency for securing republican institutions in this 
country. This Catholic effort to overthrow the public school 
system should call forth the earnest protest of every lover of 
his country." — Dr. Farley. 



"Our Republic is the highest exponent of human liberty, the 
loftiest thought of centuries, the result of the golden rule filter- 
ing down through society. We want to continue our glorious 
American Republic. We can't do it without the Bible. There 
is no reason why it should be excluded from our public schools. 
The Bible is part and parcel of our American civilization. It 
is charged t aat it is a Protestant Bible. It is not so, — it is an 
American Bible — a Republican Bible. Is it not an invasion to 
attempt to take it from the schools ¥" — Bev. J. S. Willis. 



u Clamoring about the invasion of rights does not come well 
from the representatives of the Church that burned Wickliffe 
and the glorious old martyrs of the past ; that perpetrated the 
atrocities of St. Bartholmew's eve in Paris; that to-day 
furnishes three fourths of our paupers, and nine-tenths of our 
convicts ; that gets up the Elm Park and Orange riots, and 
that sends emissaries here with the blood red berreta to set up 
a prince among republicans." — Bev. J. S. Willis. 



" The religious views of Romanists are no business of 
ours, but some of their practices are. The confessional is our 
business, just as it would concern us personally if there existed 
in our community an organization which sent its agents into 
the family circles to spy out everything, and theu report what 
they had seen and heard to a jully class of old bachelors. But 
above all it is our business when we see the same old bachelors 
whose doctrine is, " ignorance is the mother of devotion," em- 
ploying as catspaws lean and hungry politicians not only to 
exclude the Bible from the public schools, but to destroy the 
very schools themselves. This is our business, and every 
American citizen, native or naturalized, should make it his 
business and act accordingly, and not slumber on in listlessness 



50 ANTI-i>Af>AL MAKUAL, 

and leave to his posterity a heritage of shame, degradation, 
and slavery of the soul, heart, and conscience in finitely worse 
than black slavery or Russian serfdom. — Col. H. K. Elliott 



u There is among us a foreign religion that owes allegiance to 
m foreign power, tbat in all its distinctive elements is hostile to 
our religious liberties. It has no faith in the Bible, nor in 
civil freedom, nor in toleration, except for itself. Its head at 
Home has recently spoken of the " delirium of toleration ; " 
as though a man or state must be delirious, bereft of reason, to 
favor toleration. This element must be Americanized, must 
yield to the spirit of our institutions, or continue to be a 
danger to them." — Bev. Dr. Clark: 



PAPAL EDUCATORS. 



As to what the Catholic clergy propose to teach the nations 
in their methods of education, M. Tissot, author of " Le 
Catholicisme et V Instruction Publique," says : 

" We know very well what the clergy's mission is in educa- 
tion. It is to teach their dogma and the rights which result 
from this to the profit of their domination ; all the rest they 
will only teach reluctantly, because laical competition and the 
necessities of the times force them to do it. Remove these 
necessities, this competition, place in the hands of the clergy 
alone the instruction of children and of those of riper years, as 
it now asks, and you will soon see public education lowered more 
and more. Their ideal of a Christian society is a flock of 
ignorant people, led as slaves by the clergy ; it is the theocracy 
of the Jesuits in Paraguay. Then only the catechism will be 
taught; that will be all. What is beyond this is not only 
superfluous, but dangerous. It is education, philosophy, the 
love of intellectual inquiries, the eager desire of thinkiug and 
reasoning, that engender heresies. The surest means of pre- 
venting them is to destroy the cause of them by teaching men 
the least possible — only what is essential to salvation — there- 
fore nothing which is contrary to Catholic doctrine, not even 
what is beyond it. Profane pagan literature will be especially 
discarded. It is admitted that a certain amount of education 
is necessary for bishops, for priests and clericals, for the under- 
standing of the Scripturas, in order tbat they may be able to 
teach religion to the faithful. Thus the reading of heathen 
books is forbidden to the bishop ; if it is necessary to know 
what heretics think and say, it is because his mission and cir- 
cumstances have made it necessary to him. If he is moved by 
any other reason to make himself acquainted with the profane 



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works of the secular mind, lie risks going astray in it. 
Stronger still are the reasons why he should keep from these 
hooks those whose guide he is, and who would he still more 
exposed to danger than he. * * * 

" Ignorance is the surest means of making men "believe what 
it may please you to teach them, and of not heing contradicted. 
All doubt must be suppressed. It is not even allowed for laics 
to enlighten themselves by discussion, either in public or in 
private ; such a daring is punished with excommunication." 



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VICTOR HUGO'S PROTEST. 

Romish education has been rightfully estimated by one of 
the most gifted men of France, the eloquent Victor Hugo. 
His earnest words should find a place in the memory of all who 
contend for popular education in our country. There is a little 
history connected with the matter which the general reader 
should understand. Before the first Napoleon became em- 
peror, every French school, even the primaries, was instructed 
by a Catholic priest, and very little was taught in them ex- 
cept the creed and the elements of the Roman faith. Napoleon 
excluded the priests and changed the whole system. When 
the Bourbons succeeded to power, the priests were reinstated 
and held control until overthrown by the last revolution. A 
few years ago the Roman clergy determined to secure control 
of the national schools once more and called upon the French 
Assembly to pass an Act making them the only legitimate in- 
structors of the young. This attempt to bring public instruc- 
tion under subjection to Rome drew from Victor Hugo the 
following indignant protest: 

" Ah, we know you ! We know the clerical party. It is an 
old party. This it is, which has found for the truth those two 
marvellous supporters, ignorance and error ! This it is, which 
forbids to science and genius the going beyond the Missal, and 
which wishes to cloister thought in dogmas. Every step which 
the intelligence of Europe has taken, has been in spite of it. 
Its history is written in the history of human progress, but it 
is written on the back of the leaf. It is opposed to it all. 
This it is, which caused Prinelli to be scourged for having 
said that the stars would not fall. This it is, which put 
Campanella seven times to the torture for having affirmed 
that the number of worlds was infiuite, and for having 
caught a glimpse at the secret of creation. This it is, 
which persecuted Harvey for having proved the circulation 
of the blood. In the name of Jesus, it shut up Galileo. In 
the name of St. Paul, it imprisoned Christopher Columbus. 
To discover a law of the heavens was an impiety. To find a 



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■world was a heresy. This it is, which anathematized Pascal in the 
name of religion, Montaigne in the name of morality, Molierein 
the name of both morality and religion. . . . For a long time 
already the human conscience has revolted against you, and now 
demaudsof you, 'What is it that you wish of me V Foralong 
time already you have tried to put a gag upon the human in- 
tellect. You wish to be the masters of education. And there 
is not a poet, not an author, not a philosopher, not a thinker, 
that yon accept. All that has been written, found, dreamed, 
deduced, inspired, imagined, invented by genius, the treasure 
of civilization, the venerable inheritance of generations, the 
common patrimony of knowledge, you reject. 

" There is a book — a book which is, from one end to the 
other, an emanation from above— a book which is for the whole 
world what the Koran is for Islamism, what the Vedas are for 
India — a book which contains all human wisdom, illuminated 
by all divine wisdom — a book which the veneration of the 
people call the Booh — the Bible ! Well, your censure has reach- 
ed even that. Unheard-of thin g ! Popes have proscribed the 
Bible ! How astonishing to wise spirits, how overpowering to 
simple hearts, to see the finger of Rome placed upon the Book 
of God ? 

"And you claim the liberty of teaching. Stop ; be sincere ; 
let us understand the liberty which you claim. It is the lib- 
erty of not teaching. You wish us to give you the people to 
instruct. Very well. Let us see your pupils ! Let us see those 
you have produced. What have you done for Italy ? What 
have you done for Spain? For centuries you have kept in 
your hands, at your discretion, at your school, these two great 
nations, illustrious among the illustrious. What have you 
done for them ? I am going to tell you. Thanks to you, Italy, 
whose name no man, who thinks, can any longer pronounce 
without an inexpressible filial emotion ; Italy, mother of 
genius and of nations, which has spread over the uui verse all 
the most brilliant marvels of poetry and the arts ; Italy, which 
has taught mankind to read, now knows not how to read! 
Yes, Italy is, of all the states of Europe, that where the small- 
est number of natives know how to read. 

" Spain, magnificently endowed ; Spain, which received from 
the Romans her first civilization ; from the Arabs, her second 
civilization ; from Providence, and in spite of you, a world, 
America; Spain, thanks to you, to your yoke of stupor, which 
is a yoke of degradation and decay, Spain has lost this secret 
power, which it had from the Romans ; this genius of art, 
which it had from the Arabs; this world, which it had from 
God ; and in exchange for all that you have made it lose, it has 
received from you — the Inquisition. 

" The Inquisition, which certain men of the party try to-day 
to re-establish, which has burned on the funeral pile millionn 



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of men ; the Inquisition, which, disinterred the dead to hum 
them as heretics ; which declared the children of heretics, even 
to the second generation, infamous and incapable of any public 
honors, excepting only those who shall have denounced their 
fathers ; the Inquisition, which, while I speak, still holds in the 
Papal library the manuscripts of Galileo, sealed under the 
Papal signet ! These are your masterpieces. This fire, which 
we call Italy, you have extinguished. This colossus, that we 
call Spain, you have undermined. The one in ashes, the Other 
in ruins. This is what you have done for two great nations. 
What do you wish to do for France ? 

" Stop ; you have just come from Rome . I congratulate you. 
You have had fine success there. You come from gagging the 
Roman people ; now you wish to gag the French people, I un- 
derstand. This attempt is still more fine ; but take care ; it is 
dangerous. France is a lion, and is alive!" 

Americans, remember that Victor Hugo is a citizen of 
Catholic France, and had been reared under the baleful shadow 
of Papal influence. He well understood that Romish education 
was a mildew blight, and did not comport with individual hap- 
piness or national prosperity. Let none forget the burning re- 
buke of the illustrious Frenchman to Rome's crafty priesthood. 
What that priesthood has done in France, in Italy, and in 
Spain to destroy intelligence and Christian civilization, it now 
proposes to repeat in the United States. Americans— beware! 

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ROME'S SIX GREATEST SINS. 



" But the six greatest sins of Catholicism, and which for this 
reason deserve to be named separately, are : 1. That it is in- 
corrigible in its errors and in the evil acts which result from it, 
because it believes itself to be infallible, in possession of 
absolute truth, and that it does not take any account of relative 
truth. 2. That it is, consequently, civilly unsociable and per- 
secuting. 3. That it is the natural instigator and auxiliary of 
all civil despotism that consents to be its servant. 4. That, 
consequently, it has the ambition, everywhere and always, not 
only of securing its independence from the civil state, which is 
very natural, but also of subjecting this very authority to its 
control — to make it serve its own ends of domination at home 
and its conquest abroad. 5. Of being stationery where it is not 
retrograding. 6. And, finally, that of being fatally the enemy 
of all movement, of all progress, and, consequently, of all free- 
dom of thought, of speech, of the press, of education, and of re- 
ligion. And all this through charity, to make the world, will- 
ingly or by force, remain in, or enter into the fold of the 
Church, outside of which there is no salvation.' ' — M. TissoU " 



After describing the progress of Romanism in England, a 
foreign writer in the Catholic World for April, 1875, says : 

" The evidences of a movement towards the Catholic Church 
are still clearer and more general in the United States. There 
is less prejudice and hostility against the Church in the 
United States than in England. The Catholics, in the begin- 
ning of this century, stood as one to every two hundred of the 



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PAPAL GROWTH IN THE UNITED STATES. 

o 

The Roman Catholic Church is a politico-religious organiza- 
tion, and, as such, is seeking to obtain the mastery in this 
country. As its power wanes in Europe, it endeavors to 
strengthen its influence in the United States. Already the 
Papists feel themselves to be no mean power in American poli- 
tics. Thus we have Bishop McQuaid threatening to carry " the 
question of the public schools to the ballot-box," and the New 
York Tablet, a Roman Catholic paper, saying: " An immense 
preponderance of electoral power is in the hands of the Catho- 
lics of this city, so that their united action would secure the 
success of any party or any question on behalf of which it could 
be secured." 

Many Protestants, too many, in fact, fail to understand that 
the purposes of the Romish hierarchy are deadly hostile to civil 
and religious freedom. They fail to understand that the spread 
and triumph of the Papacy in this country means the overthrow 
of American institutions. What are the facts respecting the 
growth of Romanism in the United States ? Only twenty-five 
years ago the Roman Catholics were as one to twenty-five of 
our population ; they now claim one-fifth of the whole people. 
In 1830 they numbered 450,000 souls ; in 1840, 960,000; in 1860, 
4,000,000, and at the present time their journals and staticians 
insist that they have more than 8,000,000. According to the 
returns of the Census Bureau, at Washington, Roman Catholics 
double in this country every ten years. This being the case, 
a few years hence they will number 16,000,000, and in 1890, or 
thereabouts, in the neighborhood of 32,000,000. They will 
then possess that numerical strength through which the Pope 
and his army of Jesuits hope to exterminate Protestantism. 

In 1800, there were in the United States, of the papal com- 
munion, 1 Bishop, 100 Priests, and about 50,000 laymen; now, the 
Romanists can point to 1 Cardinal, 7 Archbishops, 57 Bishops, 
4,500 Priests, and, as claimed, a lay membership of 8,500,000. 
The Catholics also have in this country 7 different orders of 
monks or friars, 12 of nuns, 8 different institutions such as 
Jesuits and Redemptionists, 12 congregations of Priests and 
Brothers, and 30 Sisterhoods. 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 55 

whole population of the American Republic. The ratio of 
Catholics now is one to six or seven of the inhabitants. The 
Catholics will outnumber, before the close of this century, all other 
believers in Christianity put together in the Republic. This is no 
fanciful statement, but one based on a careful study of statis- 
tics, and the estimate is moderate. Even should emigration 
from Catholic countries cease altogether — which it will not — 
or even should it greatly diminish, the supposed loss or dimi- 
nution in this source of augmentation will be fully compensated 
by the relative increase of births among the Catholics as com- 
pared with that among other portions of the population." 



In view of the formidable advance of the Papacy in our 
country, Americans will do well to carefully ponder the follow- 
ing extract from a speech delivered by Mr. Disraeli in 183f>. 
Said this English statesman : " What is this power beneath 
whose sirocco breath the fame of England is fast withering ? 
Were it the dominion of another conqueror — another Bold 
Bastard with his belted sword — we might gnaw the fetters 
which we could not burst. Were it the genius of Napoleon 
with which we are again struggling, we might trust the issue 
to the God of battles, with a sainted confidence in our good 
cause and our national energies. But we are sinking beneath 
a power before which the proudest conquerors have grown 
pale, and by which the nations most devoted to freedom have 
become enslaved — the power of a foreign priesthood. Your 
empire and your liberties are in more danger at this moment, 
than when the army of invasion was encamped at Boulogne." 

These are strong words. They aptly set forth the animus and 
the influence of the papacy. They are worth treasuring up, 
for however true they may have been in Great Britain in 1835, 
they are much more true in our own country in 1876.* 



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A SCRAP OF HISTORY. 

o 

The Centennial celebrations now occurring all over the coun- 

*When Gavazzi was lecturing in the United States, he referred to 
England's concessions to Roman Catholicism, coupled with the following 
information : " Thirty years ago, England was incredulous as you are 
now. When Wellington and Peel permitted the passage of the Act of 
Emancipation, they said, ' The Romanists have the same rights as other 
English subjects, and should enjoy them.' The London Times warmly 
supported the Act. Thirty years are not yet gone by, and the rulers of 
England repent that Act. The London Times is now the loudest in con- 
demning it; and the Duke of Wellington, before his death, said, could 
he play his part over again, he would never, never aid in, or consent to 
the passage of such an Act.^ Why ? Because the Romanists have shown 
their gratitude by endeavoring to overthrow English freedom, to destroy 
English liberty, in order to build upon their ruin a Papal dominion .,'.' 



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try recall to mind a bit of history over which both Protestants 
aud intelligent Catholics may ponder with profit. At the close 
of our stormy Revolution, when England had acknowledged 
the independence of the American colonies, and our patriotic 
sires had launched a government of their own, the Established 
Church of England still held ecclesiastical sway over the Epis- 
copalians of America, and John Wesley had control over the 
rapidly-increasing denomination ot Methodists. But the mem- 
bers of those Protestant Churches were loyal to their own 
country, and at once followed the example of their Government 
in separating from "foreign influences" and the spiritual 
power of foreign ecclesiastics. Their conduct was in strict ac- 
cordance with the spirit of our institutions, nor was the cause 
of true religion hindered or injured by their action. What 
course did the Catholics take ? Inspired by devotion to coun 
try aud actuated by a lofty patriotism, did they imitate the ex- 
ample of their Protestant brethren ? No ! Of all the religion- 
ists in America, the Koman Catholics have alone persevered in 
their foreign allegiance. They alone have continued to render 
obedience to a foreign power ; and although that power, for 
the time being, is represented to be wholly spiritual, it is for all 
practical purposes a political despotism. — Wm. H. Van Nortwick. 



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PAPAL MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS. 

Giving an account of the intended observances of Decoration 
Day, last year, the New York Tribune said : Post John A. Raw- 
lins, under command of Hon. Benjamin A. Willis, escorted by 
the *69th Regiment, N. Y. N. G., and the veteran corps of the old 
69th Regiment of New York Volunteers, will leave the proces- 
sion at Beaver street and Broadway, and go to Calvary Ceme- 
tery, where an address will be delivered by Commander Willis. 
Father Mooney, representing Cardinal McCloskey, will review the 
troops at this cemetery." 

Having been detailed by Cardinal McCloskey, a secular 
prince of the Church of Rome, we suppose that Father Mooney 
performed his part of reviewing officer. But just here a seri- 
ous question arises — whence came the authority of the Cardinal 
to detail a Catholic priest to review any part of the militia 
of the State of New York ? It may be said that the troops re- 
viewed were wholly Irish Catholics. That does not help the 
matter. The sixty-ninth regiment is a part of the military 
organization of the State of New York, and as such should be 
beyond the meddling of pope, cardinal, or priest. Aud just 
here we are led to observe that the organization of foreigners 

* Wholly composed of Irish, wearing green uniforms. 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 57 

into separate regiments, and even companies, is entirely sub- 
versive of the fundamental principles on which this republic is 
established. 



" Foreign-accountred regiments are found in every large city 
throughout the Union. There is not a single petty nationality 
in Germany but has its military representatives amongst our 
citizen-soldiers— German in blood, feelings, language, and 
dress; German in their officers and organization. France has 
given us fac-similes of those troops who perpetrated the atro- 
cities of the sanguinary demagogues of her first revolution — 
troops who, in 1848, stormed Rome and annihilated the Italian 
republic. Austria presents us with the counterpart of those 
ruffians who, under the butcher Haynau, whipped delicate 
women to death, and waded knee-deep in blood through the 
plains of Italy and Hungary. Even contemptible little Hesse 
— whose hireling soldiery became so odious to our fathers in 
the revolution, and were the laughing-stock of their English 
comrades— even Hesse has her representatives among our mili- 
tary." — Voice to America. 

If these foreign-born citizens must become a part of our 
militia, why are they not compelled to wear the uniform of 
their respective States, or the national blue of the Federal 
Government ? 



Wherever and whenever it is possible, the Papal priests 
identify the military of this country with their processions and 
church ceremonies. So far back as 1834, a mitred priest was 
able to command the attendance of regiments at the consecra- 
tion of the Cathedral of St. Louis, on which occasion, amid 
the thunder of American artillery, the Stars and Stripes were 
lowered in idolatrous veneration. 



The New York Tribune of June 9, 1855, gave an account of a 
parallel atrocity committed in the City of Brooklyn, on the 
festival of Corpus Christi. We reproduce the Tribune report : 

" The ceremonies took place at the German Romanist Church, 
located in Montrose Avenue, Brooklyn, in that section of the 
late city of Williamsburg known as ' Dutch Town.' The 
neighborhood being almost exclusively German, the character- 
istics of Fatherland are visible in many respects, of which this 
is one most promiuent. The day wore the appearance of the 
Sabbath, labor was at a stand ; the holiday suit was donned, 
and the principal portion of the people flocked to the church 
to participate in the services. A military company of the 
locality, under command of one Captain Maerz, thoroughly 
armed and equipped, with a full band, was on the ground. At 



58 AMTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

10 o'clock the church was tilled to attend mass, and bear the 
discourse for the occasion. During mass, and at certain inter- 
vals, while the organ was playing, and the choir and congrega- 
tion chauting, the military company, drawn up in line in front of 
the altar, presented arms, and then followed in quick succession 
the roll of drums, the sound of trumpets inside of the church, 
and loud discharges of fire-arms outside of the church. This 
was repeated several times during the services. The church 
was decorated with evergreens, and the altar with flowers. The 
edifice was filled to its utmost capacity by the congregation. At 
the close of the semi-military services, the military were 
marched into the street, and formed in front of the church. 
Some further ceremonies, including a discharge of fire-arms at 
the side of the church, closed*the services of the morning." 

Such innovations upon republican customs, and such insults 
to the Protestant character of this nation, have been permitted 
from time to time, until now, we find a Popish Cardinal assum- 
ing to appoint his underlings as reviewing officers of State 
military. We contend that such proceedings are not merely iu 
defiance of the feelings of a large majority of the people of the 
country, hut are in direct opposition to the fundamental prin- 
ciples and spirit of our government. 



" The Romish Church is far-seeing — it sows to-day, knowing 
that a future generation will reap the bitter fruit. Gradually 
accustomiug the public to the spectacle of the military in al- 
liance with ecclesiasticism, they will ultimately claim this 
innovation as a right, and our soldiers will be looked upon as 
a part of the religious power, and the natural defenders and 
supporters of the priesthood. This is Rome's aim, and yet our 
legislators, yea, we ourselves, neither complain nor resist." — 
Voice to America* 



In connection with this subject we commend the following 
to the careful attention of the Protestant reader : 

il Disguise it as we may, use every argumeut that can be 
brought to bear upon universal freedom in all religious mat- 
ters, place them in all favorable lights for liberty's sake, and 
we yet fail to convince ourselves that the paramount danger to 
this country does not lie in the Romish Church. A few days 
ago, in conversation with a gentleman of that faith, a man of 
no ordinary education, we put the question point-blank : l In 
case the Romish See desired to raise a hundred thousand men 
in this country to wage war a Voutrance on Protestanti&in, could 
it be done V His answer was ' Yes.' The question was fairly 
asked, the answer as fairly acd unhesitatingly given. What- 
ever doubts we hitherto had were blown to the winds by that 



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Candid response. In this land, then, where toleration has its 
utmost stretch ; where freedom to worship God according to 
his conscience is debarred no man ; where Jew and Gentile, 
Pagan, Mormon and Christian meet on an equal footing before 
the law ; where the social amenities are openly given and taken 
in good faith by all — we have an open confession that these are 
all to be thrown aside at the bidding of a remote potentate 
whose claim of authority no law allows. We were aware that 
the Irish Ribbonmen were bound by an iron-clad oath to kill 
Protestants, murder Protestant princes, etc., but were ignorant 
until now that Ribbouism extended to us." — Franklin W, Fish. 



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PAPAL MASSACRE AT SAN-MIGUEL. 



Let Americans beware of the rising power of Rome in the 
United States. Popery is everywhere the same and boastingly 
proclaims that it never changes. Give it the strength and it will 
re-enact in this country the barbarisms of the middle ages and 
repeat the atrocities lately perpetrated in South America. Lest 
Protestants should forget the horrid massacre at San Miguel, 
we recall the following account, which was transmitted to the 
public press from Panama, under date of July 8, 1875. 

" A terrible riot took place at San Miguel, a town of 40,000 
inhabitants, in the southern part of the republic, about forty- 
two miles distant from the port of La Union, and the second 
city in the republic. A great deal of discontent had been 
excited against the Government by its refusal to allow a pas- 
toral of the Bishop of Salvador, written in a tone hostile to the 
laws, to be read in the churches. While matters were in this 
condition, a priest named Palacios preached a violent sermon 
against the constituted authorities on Sunday, the 20th ult. 
That evening the mob attacked the calaboose and liberated 
some two hundred prisoners. They then proceeded to assault 
the small garrison, and took the Cuartel, killed Generals Espi- 
nosa and Castro, cut the former to pieces and threw the pieces 
at each other, split the skull of General Castro and threw hiui 
over a wall, where he was picked up by his mother. He died 
in three days. The garrison were nearly all assassinated, and 
many honorable, well-to-do citizens killed. After this the 
fanatic mob set fire to some sixteeu houses with kerosene. 
Before the town was entirely destroyed it fortunately happened 
that H. B. M. ship Fantome was at La Union, when she landed 
her marines, whicu allowed the garrison there, united with some 
troops from Amapala, in Honduras, to march to the relief of 
San Miguel aud put down the mob. The Curate Palacios, at 
last accounts, was arrested with others that had participated in 
the outbreak, and a good many of the inferior banditti hacl 



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been shot by order of President Gonzalez, who had arrived 
with troops. With the houses destroyed and pillaged, the 
damage is estimated at $1,000,000, and commercial failures are 
looked for in consequence. The country has been declared in 
a state of siege, and President Gonzalez is taking measures to 
establish order and bring the perpetrators of this disgraceful 
outbreak to coudign punishment. 

" One curious and incredible discovery was made after the 
murderous affair was over, and that was on the persons of some 
of the dead rebels were found passports which read, wheu trans- 
lated, * Peter, open to the bearer the gates of heaven, who has died 
Jor religion, 7 signed ' George, Bishop of San Salvador/ and sealed 
with the seal of the Bishopric of San Salvador." 



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THE ENEMY OF WOMAN'S HONOR. 

"As well, by mere human will, affect the tidal wave or the 
line of gravity, as to cross the meridian of a divinely fixed 
principle and deflect it one iota from tbe beaten track marked 
out by the omnipotent mind of the great " I Am." As well do 
this as to attempt to uproot that piece of all perfection in the 
human race, a true woman's virtue — that nobility of the crea- 
ture — that parent of the Diviuity — woman's sole heritage — her 
honor. This it is Catholicism aims to destroy in its system of 
celibacy and training vestals for the sacrifice, by the discipline 
of convent, cloister and monastery, by the issues of edict, bull 
and canon ; but this God-like principle of virtue is the insur- 
mountable barrier that beats back to the wall that curse of the 
universe, Romish celibacy — a celibacy that surfeits itself within 
the ark of the sanctuary, and profanes the calling of the gospel 
of Christ by bacchanalian orgies of horror. With far more 
provocation than Burke ever impeached Hastings do I arraign 
the Roman Catholic Church before the tribunal of God for the 
greatest of all maladministrations, both of the soul and the 
body. I impeach its hierarchy for the highest crimes and mis- 
demeanors, for a foul dishonor and an unparalleled crime, for a 
blasphemous falsehood and high treason to truth. 1 impeach 
them for beariug false witness to screen fornication and lech- 
ery; I call them to an account for a slanderous attack upon 
virtue, and a brazen effrontery to crush it down : I enter a pro- 
test against them, in a complaint of the most pestilential per- 
jury and libelous defamation of character; I accuse the priest- 
hood of giving an unlawful protection to a sacrilegious seducer, 
of screening his crime from the cleansing purification of justice 
and reform, in order to exempt themselves from any interrup- 
tion to their unholy pastimes, which they follow to the beat of 
their priestly &mdity."—Mith 0' Gorman. 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 61 

WHO ARE CONDEMNED BY THE PAPAL SEE. 



All who maintain the liberty of the press. — Encyclical letter 
of Gregory XVI., in 1831, and of Pius IX., in 1864. 

Those who assert the liberty of conscience and of religions 
worship. — Encyclical letter of Pius IX., December 8, 1864. 

All advocates of the liberty of speech. — Syllabin of March 18, 
1861 ; Prop. Ixxix., Encyclical of Pius IX., December 8, 1864. 

All who conteud that Papal judgments may, without sin, be 
disobeyed or differed from, unless they treat of the rules 
(dogmata) of faith or morals. — Ibid. 

Those who hold that Roman Pontiffs and (Ecumenical Coun- 
cils (meaning Roman Couucils not recognized by others) have 
transgressed the limits of their power, and usurped the rights 
of princes. — Ibid, Prop, xxiii. 

All such as maintain that the Church may not employ force. 
— Ibid, Prop. xxiv. 

All who believe that any method of instruction of youth, 
solely secular, may be approved. — Ibid, Prop, xlviii. 

All who insist that marriage, not sacramentally contracted, 
has a binding force. — Ibid, Prop. Ixxiii. 

All who assert that a religion other than Roman Catholicism 
may be established by a State. — Ibid, Prop. Ixxviii. 

All who maintain that in countries called Catholic, the free 
exercise of other religions may laudably be allowed. — Ibid. 

All who affirm that the Pope ought to come to terms with 
progress, liberalism, and modern civilization. — Ibid, Prop. Ixxx. 

Protestants should not fail to note that Pius IX., in condemn- 
ing those who affirm that the Roman Pontiffs and (Ecumenical 
Councils have transgressed the limits of their power, aid 
usurped the rights of princes — thus justifying and approving 
all that was done by former pontiffs and councils — not only 
holds on to the Pope's right to depose rulers, but to the Church's 
right to renew the Inquisition and replace the stake and faggot. 



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MONSTROUS CLAIMS OF THE PAPACY. 

"The Pope of Rome claims to be successor of Peter, and as 
such, to be the vicar aud vicegerent of Christ upon earth. In 
this character he assumes spiritual supremacy over the entire 
church, regarding those who admit his claims as his faithful, 
and those who reject it as his rebellious subjects, but not less 
amenable to his j urisdiction. In virtue of this spirit ual suprem- 



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acy, he claims a supreme sovereignty over things temporal as 
well as spiritual — over all the kings and nations of the earth. 
(Modest old gentlemen ! he reminds us of a funny old lunatic 
in one of our asylums, who declared himself the veritable Alex- 
ander the Great, and swore he intended to whip the world, or 
die trying.) The whole machiuery of Eomanism has for its grand 
aim the support of these unfounded aud monstrous claims. 
The means devised for their support display amazing craft and 
cunning, and a wonderful adaptation to their end. The whole 
thing is a system of policy to retain power, to strengthen 
which every thing in the way of doctrine or Scripture is made 
to bow. It is modeled after the old Roman State. The emper- 
ors were elective ; so is the Pope. In all the countries which 
lay under the shadow of his scepter the emperor had his subor- 
dinates, and these again theirs, down to the lowest office in 
the state; so has the Pope. Cardinals, archbishops, bishops, 
priests, deacons, canons, monks, friars, etc., are but the higher 
and lower constabulary of the Pope, through which he seeks to 
collect into his own hands the reins of universal government, 
aud to hold in allegiance the nations to papal, as the Cesars 
held them to pagan, Rome. Again, it possesses a very strong 
dash of the old feudal system. From this system Romanism 
selected and appropriated its strong features and supplied the 
great central regulating power which it wanted. The Pope is 
a king. By feudal tenures he parcels out his Papal world 
among his archbishops and bishop, and these again among their 
subordinates. When the head of the system is in a strait he 
has only to apply to his chief vassals, and they pass the word 
to the next below, and these again to their inferiors, and soon 
the Papal world is in motion to supply the requisite assist- 
ance." — Kirwan's Letters to Chief-justice Taney. 



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THE PAPAL HIERARCHY. 

"The Roman Hierarchy is the most gigantic political associ- 
ation on earth. It is a close corporation, financial and political, 
appointing and perpetuating itself. It parcels out the whole 
earth into great territorial divisions, and appoints over each 
princes to rule, whom it calls patriarchs, archbishops and 
bishops. Beneath these ruling subdivisions are subordinates, 
whom it denominates priests. All princes and subordinates of 
every grade are vassals to the Pope, bound by feudal oaths of 
allegiance more exacting and comprehensive than any imposed 
by the other governments of mankind. The 200,000,000 of 
human beings thus governed are no part of this corporation ; 
they have no power whatever in the selection, appointment or 
continuance of these princes aud rulers. They are simply the 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 63 

subjects of the hierarchy. All power flows downward. It ut- 
terly rejects the idea of deriving power from the consent of the 
governed. The hierarchy commands— the people obey. 

"But in addition to these princes and rulers, there is an army 
of troops enrolled in numberless orders — Augustines, Benedic- 
tines, Carmelites, Carthusians, Dominicans, Franciscans, Sul- 
pitians, Trappiste, Jesuits, Friars of many colors — white, black 
and gray — with their tens of thousands of oath-bound, pro- 
fessed, and affiliated members, scattered over nearly the whole 
surface of the globe, each order having its general or head liv- 
ing in Rome, under the immediate control of the Pope and his 
College of Cardinals. 

" The field of this stupendous organization is the world — its 
object the government of mankind. Its huge machinery is 
better adapted to crush individual intelligence and enslave the 
human mind than any ever demised by man. It is a broad, 
comprehensive system, closely united, compact, steady in its 
counsels, untiring in its exertions, and energetic in its action. 
Never losing sight of its great end — the government of man- 
kind by means of their ignorance and superstitious fears — it 
adapts itself with infinite flexibility and skill to the exigencies 
of each age and the characteristics of each nation. Succeeding 
to the imperial domination of Rome, it centralizes its power. 
Throughout the extended ramifications of it3 authority the 
subordination of its members is complete ; nowhere may you 
step on a chord of its vast network, whose folds enwrap and em- 
brace the nations, without its vibrating in the halls of the 
Vatican. 

" This Hierarchy claims unity, universality, perpetuity, sanc- 
tity, immutability, and supremacy ; and its fundamental max- 
im, enunciated for twelve hundred years, but now erected into 
a dogma, by the definition of the Vatican Council, is that its 
chief, the Pope, by virtue of being God's Vicegerent on earth, 
is infallible, and, therefore, reigns, by Divine right, over all 
kings, priuces and governments, and to him all the people of 
the world of mankind owe allegiance and obedience." — Daniel 
Ullman, L. L. D. 



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POPERY THE NEW RELIGION. 



Papists sneer at Protestantism as a religion only dating back 
to the Reformation, and pride themselves on the antiquity of 
their church. With a disdainful tossing of the head and 
snapping of the fingers, they derisively exclaim to Protestants, 
" Where was your religion before Martin Luther's time ! " Let 
us examine this matter and see whether Roman Catholicism be 
not the new religion rather than the old. 



64 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL* 

The only thing that is new in Protestantism is the name. It 
arose in the sixteenth century from the protest of certain 
princes and cities in Germany against the errors of Rome. In 
this protest was contained a declaration of their faith, from 
which circumstance the parties were termed Protestants. 

" The Papists, however, take advantage of the circumstance 
that the name Protestant was not used till the Reformation, and 
pretend that the doctrines are of the same date. It is asked of 
the illiterate, ' Where were your doctrines before the Reforma- 
tion ? ? This question puzzles many who have not taken the 
pains to inform themselves on the subject, while not a few 
become an easy prey to Popish craft and subtlety. After the 
return from the Babylonian captivity, the enemies of the 
Jews, like modern Papists, niight have asked, ' Where was 
your church before Ezra?' The Jews would have replied, 
" Our religion was in the Books of Moses, but our Church was in 
bondage, from which it was delivered by Ezra.' So, before 
Luther, the Protestant religion was in the Bible, but the 
Christian Church was in bondage in mystical Babylon. She 
left the Church of Rome, but did not leave the Scriptures, 
nor the doctrines of the first four Councils. 

" On the other hand, all the doctrines of Popery are of 
very recent origin. They are not to be found in the Bible. 
They were not established at one and the same time, but 
at various periods, till at length they were all embodied in 
the creed of Pope Pius IV. in 1564. For ages the Church of 
Rome had been departing from the true faith, but it was 
not till the Council of Trent, when the new creed was set 
forth, that her apostacy became complete. Thus, iu process 
of time, the old way of salvation by Christ alone was com- 
pletely covered with Popish rubbish, which was not removed 
until the Reformation. At that glorious period the Reform- 
ers opened the old path, and pointed it out to the world — and 
the Reformation was only a restoration of the church to her 
primitive purity. And still the Papists have the effrontery 
to call theirs the old religion, and Protestantism a novelty." 



The following historical facts will furnish a sufficient answer 
to that silly question, "Where was your religion before 
Luther ? " and will show that the principal and peculiar 
doctrines of Roman Catholicism are all new, 

I. Image Worship. — This practice was first enjoined by 
the second Council of Nice, A. D. 787 ; but it was not gener- 
ally adopted till a much later period. The worship of im- 
ages is, however, enjoined by the Council of Trent ; and the 
creed of Pope Pius IV". ordains that " due honor and veneration 
are to be given to them" 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 65 

II. Infallibility. — This was not established as an article 
of faith till A.P. 1076. But the Papists cannot agree about the seat 
of this Infallibility. Some place it in the Pope. Others place 
it in a General Council lawfully called ; while others place it 
in the Pope and a General Council united. Another opinion is, 
that it rests in the whole body of the Church ; but by the 
church, the governing part of it is understood, or those who 
would be eligible to vote in a General Council. Some assert 
that the Pope is infallible in matters of faith, while others 
contend that he is only infallible in matters of fact. Thus do 
the Papists differ on this fundamental point of Popery ; but 
the doctrine is overturned by the practice of their own church; 
for Popes and Councils contradict each other, and what has 
been established by one has been condemned by another. The 
Vatican Council of 1870 decreed the infallibility of the Pope, 
but the "Old Catholics" of Europe reject the doctrine. 

III. Transubstantiation. — The Papists assert that when 
the words of consecration are pronounced by the priest, "there 
is truly, really, and substantially the body and blood, together with 
the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ."* In the year 1059, 
it was determined that Christ's body was present in the sacra- 
ment ; but it was not till the Fourth Lateran Council, A. D., 1215, 
that it was decreed that the elements were actually changed. 
Indeed the question was not fully decided till the Council of 
Trent. 

The Scriptures assert that Christ's body is in heaven ; and 
the sacrament itself was instituted in remembrance of Christ's 
absence ; yet the Papists maintain that each consecrated wafer 
is one entire Christ. 

IV. The Sacrifice of the Mass.— The Papists worship the 
wafer after it is consecrated, affirming it to be Christ, and that 
in it a true sacrifice is offered up to God. Thus, according to 
the Church of Rome, the priest creates a Saviour, who is con- 
tinually offered in the mass. This was determined as an arti- 
cle of faith by the Council of Trent, and it is stated in the 
creed of Pope Pius IV. 

V. Auricular Confession.— The Church of Eome declares 
that sins cannot be pardoned unless the sinner confess to a 
priest — one poor sinful creature to another. This practice com- 
menced only in the thirteenth century. 

VI. Service in Latin.— It is the practice of the Church of 
Rome to celebrate divine offices in the Latin language, which 
the people do not understand. Yet it is remarkable that there 
never was a decree of a Council in favor of this practice ; but 
the 4th Lateran, A. D. 1215, decreed that divine services should 
be celebrated in the vulgar tongue of every nation. In this in- 
stance Rome acts in opposition to the decrees of her Councils. 

* Creed of Pope Pius I Y. 



66 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

VII. The Papal Supremacy.— At the close of the sixth 
century, Gregory, Bishop of Rome, asserted that, " he is anti- 
christ who styles himself Universal Bishop." At that time the 
Bishop of Constantinople assumed the title, and the Bishop of 
Rome condemned it. Phocas, a most cruel tyrant, had mur- 
dered his master the Emperor, and Boniface III. supported him 
in his treason. In return for this support, Phocas, A. D. 606, 
conferred the title of Universal Bishop on Boniface and his suc- 
cessors. This was the origin of the supremacy. From that time 
the Popes endeavored to establish their supremacy ; but it was 
not made an article of faith until A. D. 1216, by the Lateran 
Council. 

VIII. Seven Sacraments.— Our Lord instituted two only, 
"baptism and the Lord's supper. The others began to be talked 
of in the twelfth century, and not earlier. Peter Lombard, 
one of the schoolmen, was the first who mentioned the number 
seven. This doctrine, however, was not made an article of 
faith before the Council of Trent, A. D. 1547. 

IX. Half Communion. — In the Church of Rome the sacra- 
mental cup is not administered to the laity, nor even to priests 
unless they officiate. This is a new doctrine, for it was only 
established as an article of faith A. D. 1415, in the Council of 
Constance. 

X. Purgatory. — This doctrine was scarcely talked of be- 
fore A. D. 600. Two centuries later a few persons only received 
it. In 1146 it began to be positively affirmed by some; but it 
was not sanctioned by a council till A. D. 1438 ; nor, indeed, 
was it fully established till 1563, in the 25th Session of the 
Council of Trent. 

XL Indulgencies, or Pardons. — The Papists assert that 
as some have been more righteous than was necessary, the sur- 
plus of their merits goes into a stock, from which those who 
have done too little may have their deticiencies supplied. 
Thus, by the management of the Pope, the abundance of merit 
in one supplies ths defect in another. Such a doctrine was for 
ages uuheard of. It was made an article of faith by the Coun- 
cil of Trent. 

XII. The Apocryphal Books. — These books were never 
received by the Jews. They were rejected by the early fathers. 

# They are at this day rejected by the Greek Church as well as 
# by the Protestants; and they were never admitted into the 

sacred canon even by the Church of Rome until A. D. 1546, at 

the Council of Trent. 

XIII. The Invocation of Saints and Angels. — The creed 
of Pope Pius IV. asserts that, u Saints are to be invocated, and 
that they offer prayers to God for us" Invocations were not ad- 
mitted into the liturgies of the church till the seventh century. 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 67 

To address prayers to the Virgin and to the saints is to substi- 
tute them as mediators in the room of Christ. We are com- 
manded to come directly to God in prayer ; to pray to saints, 
therefore, is an act of disobedience to the divine command. 

XIV. Intention. — The Papists say that unless the bishop 
or the priest really intends to ordain or to consecrate, no ordi- 
nation or consecration takes place ; and thus the validity of 
divine ordinances is made to depend on the caprice of a mere 
mortal. The doctrine is absurd. It is also new, for it was 
established A. D. 1547, at Trent. 

XV. Justification. — The Council of Trent declares that 
sinners are formally justified by works; but the Bible declares 
that man is justified by faith only. The Romish doctrine is 
new, for it was not completely fixed till the Council of Trent. 

XVI. Venial and Mortal Sins.— By the former, Papists 
mean those which the priest can pardon — those which do not 
deserve severe punishment. But there is no such distinction 
in the Bible. The notion was invented by the schoolmen, and 
talked of in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries; but was not 
established as an article of faith till the Council of Trent. 

XVII. The Celibacy of the Clergy. — Celibacy was not 
imposed in the ancient church. It was established about the 
end of the 11th century, and confirmed at the Council of 
Trent. Its imposition is a mark of the apostacy. See 1 Tim. 
ii. 4. 

XVIII. The Insufficiency of the Scriptures as a Rule 
of Faith. — The Papists assert that the Bible is defective, 
and to supply the deficiency they appeal to the traditions of 
the church. 

Protestants, on the contrary, contend that the Scriptures are 
the only Rule of Faith, and that all things necessary to be 
known are contained in them. It is certain that the early 
Fathers regarded the Scriptures as a perfect Rule of Faith. 

XIX. The Prohibition of the Reading of the Bible by 
the Laity. — No Papist can read the Bible without the per- 
mission of the priest. This is the decision of the Council of 
Trent, which declares that more harm than good would result 
from the general reading of the Bible. What a monstrous 
doctrine! It is contrary to the commands of the Bible 

XX. The Interpretation of the Scriptures according 
to the Sense of the Church. — According to the Papists the 
Church is the Interpreter of Scripture. But the Papists are 
extremely inconsistent in this matter. How, for instance, do 
they interpret the Decreed of their Councils and the Bulls of 
their Popes f By the use of their reason and the exercise of 
their own judgment. Now surely the Scriptures are as easy to 
be understood as are their Canons and Decrees ? May we not, 



68 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

therefore, apply the same rule to the interpretation of the Bible, 
which they apply to the interpretation of their own Decrees*! 

The preceding are some of the false doctrines of Popery. 
They, in fact, constitute Popery : and they are all new. 



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PAPAL DOCTRINES AT WAR WITH THE 
SCRIPTURES. 



Having proved that the peculiar doctrines of the Roman 
Catholic Church were wholly unknown to the ancient church, 
it will now he shown that they are contrary to the Holy 
Scriptures, and subversive of divine truth. 

Image Worship is contrary to Lev. xxvi. 1 ; Deut. iv. 15. 
16, v. 7, 8, 9; Ps. cxv. 4-8; Is. xl. 18-20 ; Micah, v. 13; Matt, 
iv. 10. 

Infallibility is contrary to the whole Epistle to the 
Romans, and especiaJly to chap. xi. 20, "thou standest by faith" 
not by Infallibility. 

Tkansubstantiation is contrary to Matt. xxvi. 29 ; Luke, 
xxii. 17-20 ; Acts, iii. 21 ; 1 Cor. x. 4., xi. 25, 26, (here the ele- 
ments are called oread after consecration); 1 Pet. iii. 18 ; Heb. 
ix. 25-28. - 

The Sacrifice of the Mass is contrary to Heb. ix. 22-28, 
vii. 26, 27, x. 14 ; 1 John ii. 1, 2 ; Gal. iii. 13. 

Auricular Confession is contrary to Ezra x. 11 ; 2 Cbron. 
xxx. 22; Dan. ix. 4-20; Lev. xxvi. 40; Ps. xxxii. 5 ; Luke, 
xv. 18, 19. 

Service in Latin is contrary to 1 Cor. xiv. 

The Papal Supremacy is contrary to Matt. xx. 25-28, xxiii. 
8-11 ; 2 Cor. xi. 5 ; Eph. ii. 20, i. 22, iv. 15 ; Gal. ii. 11; Col. 
i. 18 ; 1 Pet. v. 1-5. 

Seven Sacraments contrary to Matt, xxviii. 19; Luke, 
xxii. 14-20. 

Half Communion contrary to Matt. xxvi. 26-28; Luke, 
xxii. 19, 20 ; 1 Cor. xi. 26-28. 

Purgatory contrary to Matt. xxv. 46 ; Luke, xvi. 22 -26. 
xxiii. 43; Is. xxxviii. 18; Eccles. ix. 5, 6 ; Rom v. 1,2,10, 
11, viii. 1 ; Gal. iii. 13 ; Heb. i. 3, vii. 25, ix. 14-27, x. JO; 1 
John, i. 7 ; Rev. xiv. 13, xxii. 11. 

Indulgences contrary to Ps. exxx. 4 ; Is. xliii. 25, xliv. 22 ; 
Jer. i. 20 , Mark, ii. 7 ; Luke, v. 21 ; Eph. iv. 32 ; Heb. x. 
10-21, ix. 24-28, vii. 25. 

Invocation of Saints contrary to Deut, x, 20 ; Eccles. ix. 



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5, 6 ; Matt iv. 10, xi. 27, 28 ; John, vi. 37, xiv. 13, xvi. 23, 24 ; 
Acts. iv. 12, x. 25, 26, xiv. 13-15 ; Rom. viii. 27 ; 1 Cor. iii. 
11; Eph. iii. 12; Col. ii. 18; 1 Tim. ii. 5; Uohn ii. 1,2; 
Rev. xiv. 10. 

Justification by Works contrary to Job. xxii. 2, 3, xxxv. 
7 ; Ps. xiv. 2, 3, cxliii. 2 ; Is. liii. 6, lxiv. 6 , Matt. ix. 13 ; 
Luke xvii. 10 ; Rom. iii. 10, 18, 22-28, v. 1, xi. 35 ; Gal. v. 4 ; 
Eph.ii. 8, 9; Phil. iii. 9; 1 John, i. 7, 8, 9. 

Venial and Mortal Sins contrary to Matt. xii. 36, 37; 
Rom. vi. 23; Gal. iii. 10; James iii. 2, ii. 10; 1 John, iii. 
4, v. 17. 

The Celibacy of the Clergy contrary to 1 Cor. vii. 2; 
Heb. xiii. 4 ; 1 Tim. iii. 2, 4, 11, 12. 

The Insufficiency of the Scriptures as a Rule of 
Faith, their Interpretation according to the Sense of 
the Church, and the Prohibition of the use of the 
Sacred Volume to the Laity contrary to Ps. xix ; Deut. 
iv. 2] xii. 32 : Is. viii. 20 ; John, v. 39, xx. 31 ; Acts, xvii. 11 ; 

1 Cor. x. 11, 15; Rom. xv. 4 ; Eph. vi. 17 ; Col. iii. 16 ; 1 
Thess. v. 21 ; 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17 ; 1 John iv. 1 ; 1 Peter, iii. 15 ; 

2 Peter, i. 19. 20, 21 ; Luke, i. 4 ; Matt. xv. 6 ; Mark, vii. 
7, 8, 9. 

The foregoing passages are sufficient to prove that Roman 
Catholicism is destitute of any foundation in GoWs Holy Word. 

Popery is a new system — a mere piece of human patchwork. 
One patch was added by one pope or one council, and another 
by another. It bears something of the semblance to Christi- 
anity, just as the counterfeit coin resembles that which is 
genuine. 

11 Still the poor Papist is taught to believe that the false doc- 
trines of his Church are ancient and true. There is not a single 
doctrine, with the exception of that of the Trinity, in which 
the Romanists do not differ from the ancient Catholic Church. 
How then can it be said that Popery is the religion of Jesus 
Christ, when its principles are not to be traced in any of our 
Lord's discourses, or in the writings of his apostles ? 

" The Papists cannot, even, plead early tradition for one of 
their false doctrines contained in the creed of Pius IV. They 
cannot produce one single Father in each successive age, from 
the time of Christ to the seventh or eighth century, who main- 
tain the doctrines of their new creed. All the Fathers of the 
first three centuries are unanimous in their testimony as to the 
fulness and sufficiency of Holy Scriptures. The early fathers 
never appeal to tradition to establish an article of faith. Pa- 
pists cannot tell us where we are to find their traditions, for no 
authentic collection has ever been published by their Church. 
They talk, therefore, of traditions, and yet cannot point them 
out to the world. " 



70 ANTl-f APAL MAXtJAL* 

THE PAPIST BIBLE. 



It is claimed on behalf of the Papists that they receive the 
Bible. Admit it, but we are compelled to ask, what kiud of a 
Bible ? In answer we quote as follows : 

" The Council of Trent decreed that the Latin Vulgate should 
be the only authority in the Romish Church ; and when this 
was prepared, it was shown by the scholars of that period to 
be exceedingly incorrect. Aftor various changes it was taken 
in hand by Sixtus V., who issued a new edition, which he com- 
manded should be received as the only authorized version, and 
read throughout the Christian world. Subsequently Pope 
Clement VIII., as infallible as* his predecessor, issued a state- 
ment that the edition of Sixtus V., called the reformed edition, 
contained numerous dangerous errors. Think of an infallible 
Pope sending forth to the Christian world an infallible version 
of the Bible in which another iu fallible Pope discovers numer- 
ous dangerous errors ! This edition, in turn, being subjected 
to a critical examination by a man of learning, and an ardent 
Roman Catholic, was found to contain several hundred errors. 
This is now the authorized version, and like the Douay Bible, 
is adapted to the corrupt doctrines and usages in the Papal 
church. It is, in a great measure, the word of Popes and Car- 
dinals rather than the word of God." — Bev. Dr. Clark. 



" Father Ungarelli, a great friend of Gregory XVI., a pro- 
found scholar in the oriental languages, who wrote great and 
powerful works upon the antiquities of Rome — this monk, a 
few years ago, wrote a book, which was printed in Rome, re- 
vised by the Inquisition of Rome, approved by the Master of 
the sacred palaces at Rome — in which book he stated, not by 
way of opposing Pope and Popery (because he was a very sim- 
ple, bigoted man), but merely for love of the original text, that 
he found in the present Vulgate not less than seven hundred and 
fifty capital err or 8. 

" And this is the Bible now used by Roman Catholics ! You 
have the Apocryphal books, and seven hundred and fifty capi- 
tal errors, aud you can see from what kind of depository a Roman 
Catholic, when questioned, draws his arguments in support of 
purgatory, the worship of the Virgin Mary, prayers for the 
dead, etc. He will quote a Bible indeed — not the Bible of God, 
not the true word of the Holy Ghost, but a Bible of man, a 
word of human passion ; a word expressly altered by the 
Popes." — Gavazzi. 

++~* 

ROME'S MORAL THEOLOGY, 

11 The Papal Church has her particular code of morality. 



AKTI-PAPAL MAKUAL* 71 

what is called ' Moral Theology/ and that, in brief, is the word 
of man, substituted for the law of God. I cannot now quote 
all the immoralities allowed by this code, but, as an instance, 
it allows lies — swearing under mental reservation — perjury — to 
deceive our brethren for a good end. It allows all manner of 
deceit under this pretext; for example, to appear a Protestant 
among Protestants, though really a Roman Catholic, for pur- 
poses of conversion— this is permitted, sometimes it is obligatory. 
One great maxim of this Moral Theology is, that a man may 
do evil if he hope that good shall result from it ; and another 
(the great Jesuitical secret), is, that the end sanctifies the 
means. Therefore, if for the spread of the Gospel, it were 
judged necessary to kill the honorable President, Senators and 
Representatives of the United States, these horrible crimes* find 
their full justification in this most Moral Theology." — Gavazzi. 

^♦^ 



THE GODDESS OP ROMANISM 

Unroll the map of Europe beneath your eye, and visit, in 
rapid thought, her various nations. You no sooner cross the 
line which separates a Protestant from a Papal country, and 
pass from the former into the latter, than you find yourself at 
least half-way on your journey towards Paganism. You are in 
a land of idols. Not only the churches, but the cities and the 
rural districts are filled with these abominations. Mary is the 
grand object of homage. Her images, large as life, are seen at 
the corners of the streets and in inclosures by the wayside. 
And it may be affirmed without figure and without coloring, 
that she is the great goddess of Romanism. u Diana of the 
Ephesians" was not held in higher veneration among her 
ancient devotees than she among the Papists. She is more 
frequently the object of prayer and praise than God himself. 
Indeed, in the conceptions of the ordinary Papal mind, neither 
the Father, nor the Son, nor the Holy Spirit, seems to have 
much to do with the salvation of man, only so far as each of 
the persons of the Godhead may be inclined or compelled 
to act by the intervention of the Holy Mother. She is the 
great motive power." — Eev. N. S. Beman, D. D. 



In support of the declaration of Dr. Beman, we shall quote 
from " The Glories of Mary," translated from the Italian of 
St. Alphonsus Liguori, founder of the Congregation of the 
Most Holy Redeemer. " The Glories of Mary " is a strictly 
Catholic book, and not intended for Protestant eyes. The follow- 
ing are extracts from its pages : 

* The gunpowder p^t 'n England ia a case in point. 



72 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

" Behold, mother of my God, Mary, my only hope, behold at 
thy feet a miserable sinner, who implores thy mercy. Thou art 
proclaimed and called by the whole Church, and by all the faith- 
ful, the refuge of sinners; thou art my refuge; it is thine to 
save me." — (p. 88.) 

u O Mary, we poor sinners know no refuge but thee. Thou art 
our only hope : to thee we intrust our salvation." (p. 130.) 

" St. Ephraim thus salutes the divine mother : ' Hail, hope of 
the soul! hail, secure salvation of Christians! hail, helper of 
sinners ! hail, defence of the faithful, and salvation of the world! ' n 
(p. 117.) 

"Richard of St. Laurence says: l Our salvation is in the 
hands of Mary.' * * * Cassian* absolutely affirms that the salva- 
tion of the whole world depends upon the favor and protection of 
Mary." (p. 190.) 

" I invoke, then, thy aid, O my great advocate, my refuge, my 
hope, and my mother Mary. To thy hands I commit the cause 
of my eternal salvation. To thee I consign my soul ; it was 
lost, but thou must save it." (p. 239.) 

" Behold, O man ! the design of God, a design arranged for 
our benefit, that he may be able to bestow upon us more abund- 
antly his compassion ; for wishing to redeem the human race, 
he has placed the price of our redemption in the hands of Mary, 
that she may dispense it at her pleasure." (p. 118.) 

" The Holy Church, in the office which she requires to be re- 
cited on the festivals of Mary, applying to her the words of 
wisdom, gives us to understand that in Mary we shall find 
every hope : ' In me is all hope of life and virtue.' That in 
Mary we shall find every grace : ' In me is all grace of the way 
and of the truth/ In a word, that we shall find in Mary life 
and eternal salvation." (pp. 173, 174.) 

" O, how many, exclaims the Abbot of Celles, who merit to 
be condemned by the Divine justice, are saved by the mercy of 
Mary ! for she is the treasure of God and the treasurer of all 
graces ; therefore it is that our salvation is in her hands. Let 
us always, then, have recourse to this mother of mercy, and 
confidently hope to be saved by means of her intercession ; 
since she, asBERNARDiNEDE Bustis encourages us to believe, is 
our salvation, our life, our hope, our counsel, our refuge, our 
help. Mary is that very throne of grace, says St. Antonius, to 
which the apostle exhorts us to have recourse with confidence, 
that we may obtain the Divine mercy, with all needed help for 
our salvation." (p. 300.) 

" For this reason, too, she is called the gate of heaven by the 
holy Church : ' Felix cceli porta ;' because as every rescript of 
grace, sent by the King, comes through the palace gate, so it is 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 73 

given to Mary, that through her thou shouldst receive what- 
ever thou hast. St. Bona venture, moreover, says that Mary is 
called the gate of heaven, because no one can enter heaven if 
he does not pass through Mary, who is the door of it." (p. 177.) 

We omit numerous passages declaring that she is the " pro- 
pitiatory' 7 or mercy-seat, the "ark of covenant," the "ladder 
of paradise," "the most true mediatrix between God and men," 
the doctrine being " that Jesus Christ is the only mediator of 
justice," but that "the great privilege has been granted to Mary 
to be the mediatrix of salvation; not, indeed, mediatrix of jus- 
tice, but of grace" (p. 169.) 

"O woman, blessed among all women, thou art the honor of 
the human race, thi? salvation of our people. Thou hast a merit 
that has no limits, and an entire power overall creatures. Thou 
art the Mother of God, the mistress of the world, the Queen of 
heaven. Thou art the dispenser of all graces, the glory of the 
holy Church. Thou art the example of the just, the consolation 
of the Saints, and the source of our salvation. Thou art the 
joy of paradise, the gate of heaven, the glory of God. (p. 673.) 

tl St. Bernardine of Sienna does not hesitate to say that all 
obey the commands of Mary, even God himself." (p. 202.J 

" St. George, Archbishop of Nicomedia, even adds, that 
Jesus Chiist grants to his mother all her petitions, as if to 
satisfy the obligation that he is under to her for having caused 
by her consent that the human race should be given him. 
Wherefore, St. Methodius, the martyr, exclaims : * Rejoice, O 
Mary, that a son has fallen to thy lot as thy debtor, who gives to 
all and receives from none." (p. 210.) 

"She knows so well how to appease the Divine justice with 
her tender and wise entreaties, that God himself blesses her 
for i% and, as it we're, thanks her, that thus she restrains him 
from abandoning and punishing them as they deserve." 

(p. 220.) 

" Rejoice, mother and handmaid of God ! rejoice! rejoice! 
thou hast for a debtor him to whom all creatures owe their 
being. We are all debtors to God, but God is a debtor to thee." 
(p. 327.) 

We conclude our testimonies with an extract from the 
prayer of St. Ephraim, which clearly deifies the Virgin : 

" I salute thee, great mediatrix of peace between men and 
God ; O mother of Jesus our Lord, the love of all men of God ; 
to thee be honor and blessing with the Father and with the Holy 
Spirit. Amen." (p. 781.) 

We have no heart for commenting ou these blasphemous ex- 
tracts, and, indeed, no comment is necessary. Their meaning 
is plain, and their doctrine unmistakable. No intelligent man 



74 AHTJ-PAPAL MANtfAL* 

can read them without being thoroughly convinced that the 
Church which has produced, published, accepted and indorsed 
them, actually and expressly substitutes Mary, to all intents 
and purposes, for the Lord and Saviour of mankind. Salva- 
tion, grace, mercy, pardon, refuge, mediation, hope, eternal 
life — everything, in short, which a Christian finds in Christ, and 
only in Christ, the members of this besotted Church believe 
they find in Mary, and only in Mary, consequently not in Christ. 



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THE ONE ENEMY OF POPULAR EDUCATION. 



The following is an extract from a report made in 1873 by 
the Committee on Education of the New York City Council of 
Political Reform : 

u The American doctrine of free non-sectarian schools is sub- 
stantially accepted and adopted by all religious sects save oue. 
That one, however, is large, enthusiastic, well-drilled and ably 
and powerfully led; and though its members are chiefly of 
foreign birth, yet, having become citizens, they are entitled 
to the same voice and rights and privileges as natives are in 
this matter. The leader of this sect, though a foreign ruler f 
has ordered the destruction of our free non-sectarian system of popu- 
lar education, and the substitution of his own system of Church 
or parochial schools ; that is, schools whose text- books and 
teachers are selected, appointed and controlled by the Church, 
though the State may be permitted, to pay all the bills. In the 
City of New York, through State and municipal legislation, the 
following amounts of money were obtained in the last five 
years from the public treasury for sectarian institutions, such 
as churches, church schools, and church charities, viz : 

1869— $767,815 of which this one sect received $651,191 

1870— 861,326 * " u 711,436 

1871— 634,088 " " " 552,718 

1872— 419,849 " " * 252,110 

1873— 324,284 " " " 306,193 



Total, $3,017,362 $2,473,648 

41 If this is a better system than ours, we should adopt it, for 
we want the best, but if it is a worse, we should reject it." 



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PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS AND THEIR FRUITS. 

" The parochial school system has been tried for centuiies; 
£n4 in some countries, a# Italy and Spain, under the jdq§( 



ANTI-PAI>AL MANTJAL. 75 

favorable auspices, for there this sect (Roman Catholic,) has 
had despotic power, both civil and religious, and so Could carry 
its system out to its highest perfection. 

" What then are its fruits ? We may say, its necessary and 
inevitable fruits ? By its fruits it should be judged. They are 
as follows : 1. A highly educated few , but among the masses 
general ignorance, instead of general enlightenment. 2. A low 
grade of morality. 3. A large pauper and criminal class. 4. A 
tendency to despotism and to official selfishness and corrup- 
tion. 5. A lack of national progress and development. 

" These statements are made, first from a personal knowl- 
edge of the facts gained by investigation in those countries — 
having visited them before they rejected that system, for the 
purpose of studying this very question ; and secondly, they are 
made from a careful analysis of official statistics. 

" The fruits of the two systems also exist side by side in our 
own country. 

" There are with us five and a half millions of foreign-born 
inhabitants, the greater portion of whom came from countries 
— as Ireland and England for example — that have had the paro- 
chial or church system of schools; hence they may justly be 
taken intellectually and morally as the fair average product of 
that method of education. 

li Of these the illiterates above the age of ten, are fourteen per 
cent. (.14) of the whole number ; the paupers are lour and one 
tenth per cent. (.041), and the criminals one and six-tenths per 
cent. (.016.) 

" While on the other hand, in the twenty-one of our States 
having the American system of non-sectarian free public schools, 
there is a native population of twenty millions. This native 
population has been educated in this system of schools, and in 
like manner may be justly taken intellectually and morally as the 
lair average product of this method of education. 

" Of these, the illiterates above the age of ten are only three 
and one-half per cent. (.035) of the whole number; the pau- 
pers only one and seven-tenths per cent. (.017), and the crimi- 
nals only three-fourths of one percent. (.0075). 

" In other words, from every ten thousand f 10,000) inhabi- 
tants the parochial or church system of education turns out 
fourteen hundred (1,400) illiterates, four hundred and ten (410) 
paupers, and one hundred and sixty (160) criminals; while the 
non-sectarian free public school system turns out only three 
hundred and fifty (350) illiterates, one hundred and seveuty 
(170) paupers, and seventy-five (75) criminals. Or if we take 
Massachusetts, by itself, which has the type or model of our 
free public school system, with its 1,104,032 native inhabitants, 
the number is still less, viz., seventy-one (71; illiterates, forty* 
nine (49) paupers, and eleven (11 J criminals. 



76" ANTI-PAPAL MAKtML. 

Illiterates. Paupers Criminals. Inhabitants. 
Parochial school system, 1,400 410 160 to the 10,000 

^^ttes!.^!!??!.! 1 !} 350 170 75 " 10 ' 000 

Public school system in ) 71 , Q 1f „ lft ftftn 

Massachusetts J 7l 49 ll 1U ' U0 ° 

¥ That 18, we are asked by these friends who have come 
here and joined us, and whose zeal and euergy, if rightly 
directed, will be of great service both to themselves and the 
country, to abolish our own well-tried system of education 
and adopt the one to which they, in their former homes 
became accustomed, though that one, on the average, pro- 
duces four times as many illiterates, two and a half times as 
many paupers, and more than *twice as many criminals as 
ours. Or, if we take Massachusetts as a fair sample of our 
system, we are asked to adopt one that will give society 
twenty times as many illiterates, eight times as many paupers, 
and fourteen times as many criminals. We cannot do this, 
and when they come to understand thoroughly the facts, 
they will not wish us to do it; for the welfare of their 
children is just as dear to them as that of ours is to us, and 
they, equally with us, desire to dimiuish ignorance, pauperism 
and crime, and to make the country of their adoption and 
the home of their descendants intelligent, prosperous, power- 
ful and happy." — From Report of Committee on Education of New 
York City Council of Political Reform, 



PIUS IX. ON CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LAWS. 

Pope Pius IX. never neglects an opportunity to denounce 
whatever tends to the promotion of civil and religious freedom. 
He cannot tolerate liberty of conscience, of creed, of the press, 
or anything promotive of the higher intelligence of humanity. 
In a letter to M. Perin,* Professor of Jurisprudence at Louvain, 
the Pope says : 

" Would to God that these truths were understood by those who 
boast themselves to be Catholics, although they obstinately ad- 
here to liberty of conscience, liberty of creed, the freedom of the 
press, and similar hinds of liberty which were established by the 
revolutionists at the end of the last century, and which the 
Church has always condemned. Those who adhere to those 
liberties, not only as far as they may be tolerated, but consider 
them as rights which must be advocated and defended as neces- 
sary to the present state of things and to the march of progress — 
as if everything opposed to the true religion, everything which 
attributes self-government to man and frees him from the Divine 
* Anthor of a work entitled " The Laws of Christian Society." 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 77 

authority, everything which opens a broad road to all errors 
and corruption of morals, could give the nations prosperity, 
progress and glory — if these men had not put their own opin- 
ions above the teachings of the Church ; if, perhaps, without 
knowing it, they had not lent a friendly hand to those who 
cherished hatred of religious authority and civil authority ; if 
they had not thus divided the united forces of the Catholic 
family, the daring machinations of disturbers would have been 
restrained, and we should not have reached a point at which 
we have to fear the subversion of all order ." 



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CHRISTIAN SENTIMENT. 



The following resolutions were passed at the last session of 
the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church : 

"Resolved, That the continuous, persistent, and repeated 
efforts of the Papists throughout the country, under the tutel- 
age, direction, and advice of the Papal hierarchy, to obtain con- 
trol of the school funds in the several States of the Union, or 
to have a portion of said school funds diverted from the legal 
and legitimate uses to which said funds are pledged, in order 
to devote the money to the support of Papistical schools, de- 
mand from all Protestant Christians of every denomination, 
and every citizen of the United States opposed to a union of 
church and state, resolute, determined, and combined effort 
and uuceasing watchfulness, to prevent the success of insidious 
attempts now being made in all sectious of the country, by the 
adherents of the Papacy, to secure control of the school money. 
And it is hereby recommended by the General Assembly of the 
Presbyterian Church that all attempts to subvert our school 
lands or divert any portion of the various school funds in any 
of the States of the Union, to, or for the use of, any church or 
sect, shall be resisted and prevented by all legal and honorable 
means. 

" Resolved, That the outcry of the Papal hierarchy against 
what they call our " Godless schools," can with far more justice 
and greater propriety be applied to the schools they have in- 
stituted. In the common schools of our country the pure 
Word of God is read without comment, while in the Papis- 
tical schools the Bible is excluded, and dogmas and traditions 
of men are substituted for the commandments of God." 



The annexed resolutions were adopted at the late annual 
meeting of the General Synod of the Reformed (Dutch) Church: 

" Resolved, That while this General Synod has no sympathy 
with any attempt to make the State an engine for the prop- 



78 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

agation of a mere sectarianism, it regards the use of the 
Bible in the public schools as a legitimate measure of great 
utility and importance for the proper education of our Am- 
erican children and youth in those principles of sound morals 
and sterling patriotism which are so essential to the perpetu- 
ity and welfare of the nation, and it deprecates most earnestly 
the exclusion of the Bible from the public schools as the 
surrender of a sacred right which, as we have received it, 
under the good providence of God, from our fathers, we should 
do our utmost to transmit to our children unimpaired. 

"Resolved, That this General Synod hereby puts on record 
its emphatic disapproval of all appropriations, by legislative 
or other civil authority, of the public money for sectarian use, 
or for the promotion of sectarian ends," 



The Board of Directors of the American and Foreign 
Christian Union assembled in the New York Bible House, in 
May last, and adopted the following preamble and resolu- 
tions : 

" Whereas, This Union was originally formed and has thus 
far existed for the purpose of extending the knowledge of 
divine truth in communities nominally Christian, and for the 
advancement of the cause of civil and religious liberty through- 
out the world ; and its attention having been directed to the 
encroachments of the Roman Catholic Church upon the insti- 
tutions which we have in this country regarded as identical 
with our liberties ; and 

14 Whereas, The recent attempt is noticed of the Vicar-Gen- 
eral and others of the Roman Catholic Church to obtain the 
funds of the people for the support of their sectarian schools, 
in which their political and religious doctrines may be taught 
to the youth of this city at the public expense ; therefore be it 

44 Resolved, 1. That this Union, in behalf of all the friends of 
civil and religious liberty, and of all who hold to the equal 
rights of all religious denominations before the laws of the 
state, does emphatically protest against the direct or indirect 
use of the school funds for the support or aid in any way of the 
parish schools of any sect whatever ; and 

" Besolved, 2. That the principals set forth by the authorities 
of the Roman Catholic Church in their official and recent pub- 
lications in regard to the relations of church and state, and 
the duty of the church to direct the schools, and the denial of 
the rights of the state to control the education of the young, 
make it imperative upon American citizens to resist in all suit- 
able ways the manifest purpose of the Roman Catholic Church 
to disturb the noble public school system of the United 
States." 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL/ 79 

By a unanimous and enthusiastic vote, the late Ohio State 
Universalist Convention adopted the following relative to 
free schools : 

"Whereas, The strength and glory of America is in her free 
schools, which the Roman Catholic Church is now seeking to 
destroy ; 

" Therefwe, It is the duty of every religious denomination 
which is loyal to the national form of government, to unite in 
support of our free school system, on the ground that their sup- 
port is an absolute necessity to the continuance of our free 
government, its institutions, and the best interests of religion 
and humanity." 

Official bodies representing the Methodist, Baptist, Congre- 
gational, Episcopal, and other evangelical churches, have giv- 
en expression to sentiments similar to the foregoing. It is only 
through a united Protestantism that American institutions can 

be saved to posterity. 

*^« 

ROMISH LAWS. 

" The New Testament plan of salvation — belief in the Lord 
Jesus Christ — dispenses with ceremonial, and is consistent with 
his declaration that his yoke is easy and his burden light ; but 
the Romish Church has outrun the Scribes and Pharisees in 
binding upon men heavy burdens, repugnant both to reason 
and Scripture, and has made belief in others than the Saviour, 
and in many more doctrines than he ever taught, essential to 
salvation, adding to every new dogma she coins the terrible 
decree that whoever won't accept it shall be damned— the 
latest dogma of the kind, the infallibility of the Pope, con- 
signing by retrospection some of her most gifted members of 
former times, such as Bossuet, who strenuously denied Papal 
infallibility, to perdition. This arbitrary interference with 
men's consciences in some cases extends beyond the sphere of 
speculation, and directly affects their civil rights, as in the case 
of marriage, for example, the Church of Rome holding every 
union not celebrated by her clergy -as concubinage, and the 
fruit thereof illegitimate. This was broadly proclaimed by 
Father McGlew, a priest in Chelsea, a suburb of Boston, in the 
case of one of his parishioners who had thought proper to 
marry in accordance with the laws of the United States, without 
the addition of ecclesiastical ceremony. This case affords a 
striking example of how the doctrines of the Church of Rome 
conflict with the law. As the latter is made for the benefit of 
Roman Catholics as well as others, it would seem that they are 
entitled to avail themselves to the fullest extent of its privi- 



80 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

leges, and it is also as clear that no one, priest or layman, has 
any right to malign them or injure their character for so doing. 
This, however, is what has been done in the above case, and 
the slandered party has failed to obtain reparation, because two 
Catholics on the jury are stated to have been so firmly con- 
vinced that the doctrine of their Church overrode the law of 
the land that they would not even discuss the question. If 
the laws are to be respected, this matter cannot be allowed to 
remain in such an unsettled condition. Whatever the priest 
may say, the marriage is lawful, and ensures full civil rights. 
It might be all very well for those entering matrimony to have 
the blessing of the Church on their union, but as the State has 
to enforce the duties and rights, growing out of this union, the 
civil part of the contract must be regarded as the essential one. 
The Church of Rome holds Protestant marriages in the same 
estimation as that which Father McGlew so emphatically 
cursed, as was shown in a recent case of conversion to thi 3 
Church in the Eastern Townships, where the parties were 
married over again. The behavior of the Catholic part of the 
jury in the case in question, in doggedly refusing to acknow- 
ledge the law, is significant of the danger to society from 
the trained hosts of Rome, whose laity seem to have abdicated 
the use of their reason, and made themselves blind followers of 
their clergy. Such cases as these will tend to create sympathy 
with Prince Bismarck and others whose policy of keeping the 
Church subordinate to the law seems so harsh to onlookers till 
they experience how it is with themselves." — Montreal Witness, 



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PUBLIC ENEMIES. 
o 

Austria makes complaint that, as the monks aud nuns 
excluded from North Germany for the most part take refuge in 
her dominions, she thus suffers a great addition to the pauper 
part of her population and to " the enemies of her liberal insti- 
tutions." How is it that such people are held to be enemies of 
liberal institutions in Europe and not in the United States? 
Can any of our politicians who truckle to Rome explain ? 



THE MIDDLE AGES. 
o 



In the Middle Ages there were three great powers — the Papal, 
the monastic, and the feudal. Amid their constant combina- 
tions the monk ruled. No doubt there were among these men 
those of transcendent virtue, thought, and intelligence ; but 
that there were bad and unscrupulous men as well, and that 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 81 

they were in the majority, no one who has read the story of 
the richly-freighted Middle Ages can deny. Their wealth was 
bonndless ; their learning enormous and narrow ; they object- 
ed to any insurrection of human intelligence; they were great 
in action, and wonderful as tools. They were masters of the 
ignorant feudal lords, and held them in the chains of a spirit- 
ual slavery which ruled Europe for a thousand years. They 
were grand when in Rome ; they lived with simple self-denial, 
and forged the armor with which they afterwards attacked 
idolatry, under the friendly shadow of imperial Jove, with the 
courage of Mars and with the cunning of Mercury. But were 
they grand when, in corrupted convents, they practiced an 
ignorant fanaticism, proud of an unnatural humility, fasting, 
praying, and living in idleuess; repulsive and loathsome in 
their un cleanliness, thinking their unwashed bodies a mark of 
sanctity ? Idleness and solitude became the causes of morbid 
poverty of intellect and narrow-minded dissention. We do not 
need to turn to the corrupt pages of Rabelais for the sketch of 
a convent interior. Browning, in far nobler verse, has given 
us the little hatreds, the ignoble envy and jealousy, the crime 
and hidden sin, which convent walls seemed to foster instead 
of to shut out. 



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STATE SUPERVISION OF MONASTIC INSTI- 
TUTIONS. 



The Papal Church is the avowed enemy of civil and religious 
liberty, and claims to exercise a power above that of the State. 
Her authorities are planting monasteries and nunneries all over 
the country, and they alone can tell how many of them serve 
as prisons for the confinement of unwilling victims. On more 
than one occasion the Romish clergy have resisted a writ of 
habeus corpus issued in behalf of some poor sufferer undergo- 
ing illegal punishment. Is it not time that the authorities of 
the several States exercised a proper surveillance over all such 
institutions ? On this subject the Methodist says : 

" Monastic institutions in France exist on two conditions, 
authorized or incorporated, and unauthorized or unincorporated. 
Authorization is not given until inquiries are made as to the 
objects and utility of the proposed religious house. Each au- 
thorized monastic establishment is subject to the supervision 
of the State. Vows are permitted, but not for a longer term 
than five years. Any member who wishes to leave can do so ; 
the taking of vows does not destroy civil rights, as was once 
held by the church. Unless authorized by the government 
m France, religious communities cannot accept gifts, or grants 
of real estate. The Government also reserves to itself the 



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right to 'withdraw authorization which it has given. It is esti- 
mated that there are 2,000 houses of men, containing 20,000 
persons under vows, oue-fourth of whom are devoted to a life 
of contemplation. The majority of these organizations are not 
authorized by the State. About 100,000 women in France 
belong to religious orders; most of them are engaged actively 
in works of charity. The French Government is disposed to be 
tolerant in its supervision of monastic orders, and yet does 
keep them under its observation. In Portugal monasteries 
have been abolished ; in Sweden and Norway they are not tol- 
erated ! Toe Spanish Cortes, iu 1868, suppressed the monaster- 
ies, but in 1872 they were sanctioned again. Since 1804, in 
Russia, the entry into monastic orders and the admission of 
novices cannot take place without the consent of the local civil 
authorities. Iu Austria recent legislation has greatly limited 
the independence which monastic institutions formerly enjoyed. 
In Switzerland they have been put under strict surveillance, 
and iii some cantons suppressed." 



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CHURCH PROPERTY. 

o 

In 1850 the church property iu the United States exempt 
from taxation was worth $87,328,801; in 1860 it was $171,397,- 
932; in 1870 it was $344,483,481, and at the present time more 
than $600,000,000. 

A Committee of the Illinois Conference of the M. E. Church 
has reported iu favor of the taxatiou of church property. They 
argue in their report that the Constitution forbids the State to 
aid any religious denomination, and tbat laws which exempt 
$382,000 000 worth of church property from taxation violates 
the letter aud spirit of the Constitution. The committee add 
that the taxation of church property would be favorable to the 
interests of religion by showing that the separation between 
the Church and the State is complete. 



The burden of impartial taxation should fall indiscriminate- 
ly on all denominations, among whicli the Methodists have 
nine millions more, and the Presbyterians but thirteen millions 
less than the sixty-one millions of Catholic property. 



THE PAPACY AND SECRET SOCIETIES. 



All secret societies not specially authorized by the Papacy, 
have been placed under the ban of the Chuich. Popish bulls 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 83 

have been fulminated against Freemasons and other secret 
societies. Clement XII., in 1730, Benedict XIV., in 1751, 
Leo XII., in 1806, Pius VIL, in 1811, and Pius IX., in 1865, 
issued such bulls. While Rome wages a war against Masonry 
and curses all connected therewith, Americans should not forget 
that Washington and other illustrious fathers of the Republic 
belonged to tbe fraternity, and gave the whole weight of their 
iufluence toward securing to the individual citizen equality 
before the law, the sanctity of personal rights, and absolute 
religious toleration. A writer well says : 

" Whether Masonry has been in particular instances perverted 
is not the issue. It was not the particular perversion to which 
Rome objected, but the radical principles of Masonry, Odd Fel- 
lowship and kindred orders, and so long as Roman Bishops 
8 wear to persecute and wage war with all whom they consider 
heretics or schismatics, infidels or Jews, they cannot be good 
Freemasons, good Odd Fellows, good Knights of Pythias or 
good members of any of the other thirty secret beneficial orders 
that there are in this country." 



It should not be forgotten that the present Pope is an 
expelled member of the order. The decree of expulsion was 
signed by King Victor Emanuel, Grand Master of the Orient 
of Italy, and, preceded by the minutes of the Lodge in 
which he was initiated, published in the official Masonic paper 
at Cologne, Germany, as follows : 

" A man named Mastai Ferretti, who received the baptism 
of Free Masonry, and solemnly pledged his love and fellowship, 
and who afterward was crowned Pope and King, uuder the 
title of Pio Nono, has now cursed his former brethren and ex- 
communicated all members of the Order of Free Masons. 
Therefore, said Mastai Ferretti is herewith, by decree of the 
Grand Lodge of the Orient, Palermo, expelled from the Order 
for perjury." 

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MATTERS WORTH REMEMBERING. 

" No one becomes a Papist till he despises or disregards the 
Bible, and believes the word of the priest rather than the word 
of God." 



" The Church at the Reformation differed from the Church of 
Rome only as a well cultivated field differs from the same field 
overrun with weeds, or as Naaman cleansed from Naaman 
covered with leprosy. The Reformers separated from the 
Papacy, not from the Church of Christ." 



84 „ ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL 

" Secure in its infallibility, the Papal Church cau outcurse the 
world." 



" In Protestant countries, Romanism makes capital out of 
what it hypocritically calls persecution, and wins sympathy 
from tender-hearted ignorance by a portrayal of what it calls 
the unmerited wrongs done it." 



" A persecuting church is always the first to cry out 
anything like persecution directed against itself." 



against 



Addressing himself to an American audience GAVAZZisaid: 
u Beware of the emissaries ! After the intrusion of Cardinals into 
America, the rising of the despotical Popedom in your country 
shall be the natural consequence of your indifference. A red 
hat will blind your sleepy eagle, and the influence of St. Peter's 
keys will replace the wonderful light of your Americau stars." 



The first attempt to introduce the Virgiu Mary into the 
"office," that is to say, into the prayers of the Papal Church, 
took place in the tenth century. 



Popes Innocent III. and Pius IV. approved the doctrine of 
transubstantiation. Pope Virgilius and Pope Gelasius, both 
infallible, pronounced against it. 



Ireland's patron saint, the pious Patrick, was never a wor- 
shipper of the Virgin Mary. 

When the Poles were waging a war against the hordes of Rus- 
sia for the purpose of regaining their freedom and re-establish- 
ing their nationality, Pope Gregory XIV. cursed Poland, aud 
blessed the Czar ! When the heroes of Hungary endeavored to 
shake off the despotic yoke of Austria, Pius IX., in like man- 
ner, showered his curses on Hungary and Messed Austria ! When 
Italians took up arms against the perjured house of Hapsbnrg, 
Pius IX. cursed the patriots of Italy, aud blessed their enemies. 



Protestants refrain from the commission of sin through fear 
of God — Roman Catholics are restrained by the fear of man. 
The former observe the law of God, because commanded by 
God ; the latter obey the law of the Church to please their 
Father Confessor, and that they may not be deprived of abso- 
lution. According to St. Paul, " The fear of man makes slaves, 
the fear of God makes sons." 



anti-papal Manual. 85 

In view of the aggressive policy inaugurated in our country 
by the Romish Church, American Protestants should forget de- 
nominational differences and remember only their common 
Christianity. Everywhere let the watchword be — Union ! A 
common cause calls for a common defence. 



THE CASE STATED. 

11 But let us see how the case stands with her in a free coun- 
try. Let us inquire if she can so far change her nature as in a 
republic to become the friend and support of liberty. That 
she can seem to do this, that she can wear such a mask as suits 
her purposes, is without question. The chamelion can borrow 
a hue from the surface upon which it creeps, and so is it with 
Romanism ; but like that insect, her true color is cold, stern, 
gray with iron hue of despotism. 

"The very outward form of the Romish Church is at vari- 
ance with all rational liberty; there is not a feature in it 
which has any sympathy with free institutions. A religious 
community of Papists is a despotic government in miniature. 
There are here but two grades — the priest and his flock ; one 
to rule, the other to obey; on this side authority, on that 
unresisting submission. He has no account to give them of 
his charge. It is theirs to receive his dictates in silence, his 
to exercise his power as he sees fit. He is accountable to 
no one but God and his superiors. Neither have the people 
a voice in the selection of their spiritual guides. These are 
appointed by the higher clergy, and these in turn receive their 
commission from a foreign power, to which they have sworn an 
oath of allegiance. The substance of this oath binds them to 
advance the interests of that power, to hold its enemies as their 
enemies, and to vex and destroy heretics to the utmost of their 
ability. And if there is any meaning in words, what is the 
import of such an oath, but to undermine and betray every 
government that does not own the authority of the Romish 
see?" — Bomanism Incompatible with Republican Institutions, by 
Civis. 

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THE FOUNTAIN OF CIVILIZATION. 

"For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively 
taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization, science, law — 
in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the spe- 
cies, always supporting, and often leading the way. Its very 
presence, as a believed book, has rendered the nation emphati- 
cally a chosen race; and this, too ; in exact proportion as it is. 



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more or less generally known and studied. Of those nations 
wbich in the highest degree enjoy its influences, it is not too 
much to affirm that the differences, public and private, physi- 
cal, moral, and intellectual, are ouly less than what might be 
expected from a diversity of species. Good and holy men, and 
the best and wisest of mankind, the kingly spirits of history, 
enthroned in the hearts of mighty nations, have borne witness 
to its influences, have declared it to be beyond compare the 
most perfect instrument, the only adequate organ, of human- 
ity." — Coleridge. 



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SECRET ORGANIZATION. 



A great outcry has, of late, been raised against the secrecy of 
the 0. A. U., a non-political but strictly Protestant organiza- 
tion. The Papists and their toadying sympathisers have loudly 
and fiercely assailed the order, as though it were a crime for 
Protestants to unite for the preservation of civil and religious 
freedom. And now we ask these same Papists and their quasi 
Protestant allies, in all sincerity, what is the Roman Catholic 
Church but a secret organization? Borrowing the forcible 
language of an earnest writer, we answer: "The Papal 
Church distinctly claims, and always attempts — and has too 
often succeeded — to over-influence and thoroughly control 
and direct all civil governments. For this purpose, as well as 
for the purpose of retaining a good hold upon the people at 
large, its constitution has always been essentially secret. It 
has operated through mystic forms. It uses an unknown tongue 
in its ritual. It wields a secret influence through the con- 
fessional. It centralizes its power in the hauds of one man, 
and so proceeds that the masses of lay members, who are the 
basis of that power, are utterly ignorant of the mode of its use. 
The two great instruments, moreover, of the Romish Church — 
the two griping talons which serve it as his two great claws 
serve the lobster, to seize, hold, and crush its victims — are the 
Jesuits and the Inquisition. The Jesuit claw is for govern- 
ments and nations, the inquisitorial claw for individuals. It 
is unnecessary to show how secrecy is the very life and breath 
of these wicked engines. They could no more live or work 
without it, than a tish could swim without water. 

" This secret plotting of the Papal Church, and the secret 
manceuvering of its two ministering spirits, have become so 
notoriously and undisputedly believed, that they serve to sup- 
ply some of the commonest and most forcible words of the 
English tongue. Seek out a name for some false and treacher- 
ous proceeding ; for some revoltingly tyrannical piece of op- 
pression under forms of legal inquiry ; or for the man guilty of 



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such things — the proceedings, you say, are a Jesuitical plot ; or 
they are an Inquisitorial proceeding. The man is a Jesuit; a 
crafty, Jesuitical fellow. Fasten those names on him or his 
schemes, and whatever an ill name can do, is done." 

The use of secresy in promoting a good cause is no new thing. 
The Congress of the Re volution sat with closed doors, and no 
report of its debates was ever made. From our own history we 
learn that the Convention which framed the Constitution of 
the United States conducted its proceedings in secret from the 
25th of May to the 17th of September following. Our fathers, 
as well as other great and good men who have conducted enter- 
prises in the past for the good of their fellows, understood the 
value of secrecy. Secrecy, however, is not a constituent prin- 
ciple of the O. A. U. But if this Protestant organization has 
any mission in this respect, it is to counteract the secret plottings 
of the Papacy against the government and institutions of 
this land — a* land which Christian heroes and statesmen 
dedicated to Freedom and to God. 

"From the multitude of the long-gone ages, voice after 
voice rises, swelling up into one agonizing cry. It comes 
from the dungeons of the Inquisitiou — from the Piedmont 
valleys — from the crushed and broken Waldenses — from the 
streets of Paris running red with Protestant blood — from 
Huguenot hearth-stones, all white with the ashes of despair; 
from every century and clime that has felt the blighting power 
of the Papacy — a voice that cries out to this generation : 'Quit 
ye like men, be strong.' " The O. A. XL, is girded and ready to 
respond. May God and every good man, native or foreign- 
born, help it to its work. 



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OUR DUTY AND THE FUTURE. 



" What then are we to do ? Consecrate yourself as an Ameri- 
can anew to the defense of Protestant liberty. Till this land ; 
fill this generation of its people with principles of freedom and 
the knowledge of a pure Christianity, 'the faith once delivered 
to the saints. Truth is our strongest weapon — the truth of reve- 
lation — the truth of history — the Word preached with living 
and loving power. Replenish the treasury of God. Reinforce 
the colleges and seminaries of Christian instruction. Raise up 
and maintain, wherever our population spreads, an able minis- 
try of the Gospel. Diffuse widely a pure Christian literature. 
Elevate the public intelligence so that none can falsify history. 
Guard institutions of public education. Resist with vigilance 
any attempt to tamper with the common school, or to divide its 
resources with any sectarian system of instruction. Meet the 
Catholic population as individuals with Christian kindness and 



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an American welcome ; even while you oppose the system of 
untruth under which they have been bred. To multitudes of 
that people, yes, to many of the priesthood, it is far more their 
misfortune than their fault that they are devoted to the faith 
and practices of Rome. Some of them are evidently hoping 
for the creation on these shores of Catholicism that shall not 
be Roman. Let every good man, every good work, every right 
thought be recognized and valued, even while we expose the 
corruption of the system." — William H, Goodrich, D. D. 



" With the principles of the Bible in our system of educa- 
tion, and in the hearts of its professed friends ; with a new 
zeal awakened by the present cpntroversy, to infuse, through 
every medium, more of intelligence and virtue into the com- 
munity ; with the friends of the Bible and the God of the 
Bible presenting a united front on the question before us, I 
see the American Republic travelling on in the greatness of its 
strength; I see the hundreds of millions, who must inevitably 
crowd this continent, happy and prosperous, under the best 
institutions that God ever gave to a nation. I see churches 
and benevolent societies multiplying, to diffuse through all 
classes in society the blessings that we have found so precious 
to our souls. I see vessels leaving our ports laden with the 
treasures of the Gospel, and bearing to all lands the benefits of 
the highest civilization and purest religion. I see the light 
streaming from this republic, and resting on every island aud 
continent on the globe. I see, indeed, in the future, as now, 
hostile forces and great dangers; but I see the ship of state 
sailing on, dashing aside Romanism and Atheism, as it has 
dashed aside Slavery, smiting every wave of opposition, out- 
riding every storm, bearing on safely its precious freight of 
interests and hopes, and presenting a spectacle of beauty, 
power and success that excites the admiration of the world." — 
Bufus W. Clark, D. D. 



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PAPISTICAL PATRIOTISM. 

" During our struggle in breaking the chains of slavery — a 
struggle involving the question of National existence— the 
Catholics, true to their time-honored principles, proved them- 
selves hostile to our Government. We speak advisedly. 
We know they boast much of their loyalty. It is in- 
deed true that in the first year of the war many enlisted. 
Rome had not yet spoken. Carried along by the irresistible 
tide of patriotism, they enthusiastically joined in the cry. 
i Secession is treason, and must be punished,' In the secoud 



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year of the war, however, Archbishop Hughes visited Europe. 
Almost the first intimation we had of his presence at the Vat- 
ican was the acknowledgment by the Pope of the independence 
of the Confederate States. A written benediction was for- 
warded to Jefferson Davis, addressing him as " Illustrious 
and Honorable President.' 

" Very soon enlistments among the Irish ceased almost en- 
tirely. Desertions became frequent. The entire Catholic pop- 
ulation became intensely hostile to the Government. Banded 
together, they declared, in language not to be mistaken, their 
determination to resist the draft. Riots were by no means in- 
frequent, and would no doubt have been more numerous but 
for the apparent hopelessness of the effort to resist the will of 
the American people. Who inspired this fiendish malevolence ? 
Who instigated outrages like those in New York ? Was the 
Pope's temporal power unfelt on this continent ? Were we not 
furnished w r ith illustrations frequent and painful that the first 
allegiance of our Catholic citizens is due to their spiritual sov- 
ereign in Rome ? — Van Dyke's Popery, p. 243. 

Let us hear no more from Popish treason-mongers concerning 
Catholic loyalty and patriotism during our civil war. The 
American people know how to estimate the past services and 
present intentions of the Pope's subjects in this country. It is 
not within the range of designs entertained by the Papal 
Church to permit loyalty in its membership to a Protestant 
government. The United States and Germany are the modern 
witnesses of this fact. 



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ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S ASSASSINS. 



Rome has no scruples concerning the violent destruction of 
those who oppose her plans or stand in the way of her designs. 
The rich and the poor, the great and the lowly, the prince and 
the peasant, have alike fallen victims to her malice and rage. 
When Pope Clement V. desired to rid himself of Henry VII., 
Emperor of Germany, a Dominican monk received orders to 
assassinate the monarch by administering poison in the euch- 
arist. After Pius IX. had acknowledged the independence of 
the Southern States and conferred his benediction upon the 
" Illustrious and Honorable President" of the Confederacy, it 
entered into the Papal plans to strike down with murderous 
hands the noble man who will be known through all coming 
time as the " Martyr President." To charge Roman Catholics 
with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln will doubtless 
raise a storm of indignant denial, yet, nevertheless, the accusa- 
tion is fully sustained by the facts of the case. The crime was 



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a natural sequence of Rome's hostility to the government rep- 
resented by the illustrious man so foully murdered. Catholics 
were called into the dark plot which ended in causing a nation 
to mourn, and sending a thrill of horror throughout the civilized 
world. The bloody deed was planned in the house of a devout 
Catholic. " It was associated in its inception," says Van Dyke, 
" with the prayers and hopes of the Romish Church." One of 
the prominent actors, aided in his escape by Catholic enemies 
of our country in Canada, found shelter and refuge in a Catho- 
lic convent, and afterwards was taken under the protection of 
Pius IX. and allowed to serve as a trusted soldier in the Pon- 
tiff's army. The Pope blessed Jefferson Davis. His minions 
assassinated Abraham Lincoln. 



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MISCELLANEOUS. 

" It is as obligatory to hear the voice of Pius IX., when he 
speaks avowedly to the universal church, as it is to listen to 
the voice of Jesus Christ." — Freeman's Journal. 



" The hands of the Pontiff are raised to an eminence granted 
to none of the angels, of creating God the Creator of all things, 
and of offering him up for the salvation of the whole world." — 
Pope Urban. 

11 We ask that the public schools be cleansed from this peace- 
destroying monstrosity — Bible reading." — Bishop Lynch. 



" It will be a glorions day for the Catholics in this country 
when under the blows of justice and morality our school 
system will be shivered to pieces. Until then modern *Pagan- 
ism will triumph." — Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph. 



"The question put to us a few years since with a smile of 
mixed incredulity and pity, " Do you believe that this country 
will ever become Catholic ?' is changed into the question, 
' How soon do you think it will come to pass ? ' Soon, very 
soon, we reply, ifstatistics be true." — Catholic World. 

" Within thirty years the Protestant heresy will come to an 
end." — Papal Bishop of Charleston to the Pope. 

" Effectual plans are in operation to give us the complete 
victory over Protestantism." — Papal Bishop of Cincinnati. 

* Protestantism. 



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"The man is to-day living who will see a majority of the 
people of the American Continent Roman Catholic." — Boston 
Pilot, Papist. 

1 They (Catholics in the United States) are as strongly de- 
voted to the sustenance and maintenance of the temporal power 
of the Holy Father as Catholics in any part of the world ; and if it 
should be necessary to prove it by acts they are ready to do 
so." * — Cardinal McCloskey. 



" If any think that Christ, our Lord and King, has only given 
to his church a power to guide by advice and permission, but not 
ordain by laws, to compel and force by anterior judgments and 
salutary inflictions, those who thus separate themselves, let them 
be anathema." — Canon XII. of the Vatican Council. 



u The Catholic who says the church is not intolerant belies 
the Sacred Spouse of Christ." — Shepherd of the Valley, Papist. 



u Catholicism is the most intolerant of Creeds. It is intoler- 
ance itself— for it is truth itself. We might as rationally 
maintain that a sane man has a right to believe that two and 
two do not make four, as this theory of religious liberty. Its 
impiety is only equalled by its absurdity." — New York Freeman } s 
Journal, Papist. 



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THE POPE AND POLITICAL POWER. 

BY WM. H. VAX NORTWICK. 



One of the most celebrated men of Catholic France once made 
the declaration that "the Romish Church has always ranged 
herself on the side of despotism." The records of the past, and 
the struggle now going on between the Papal See and civil 
governments, both in the Old and New' worlds, stamp the utter- 
ance as true. Although Pius IX. pretends to infallibility, and 
claims, as the Vicegerent of Christ, to have absolute power 
over all things spiritual and temporal, it is no uncommon thing 
for journalists and party men in our own country to flippantly 
contend that the influence of Rome over political affairs be- 
longs wholly to the dead past. They assert that her power has 
jong been on the wane ; that the higher civilization of the age, 
the development of intellect, and spread of education among 

*The Pope arrogates to himself the power to coerce all civil govern- 
ments, and, as it appears, Catholics in this country are ready to enforce 
his claim. How ? 



92 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

the masses, have forced her to relinquish coercive power, and 
that the resumption of her former influence is simply impossi- 
ble. Whenever the matter of Papal interference with civil 
government is hinted at or asserted, we are confronted by pre- 
lates, priests, and political panderers to Catholicism, who zeal- 
ously maintain that the supremacy of the Pope in temporal 
affairs is not an established doctrine of the Komish Church; 
that "it is merely a nententia in ecclesia — an unadjudicated 
question, having no positive authority, and incumbent upon 
the faith of none." With much vehemence they assert that, 
" a Roman Catholic may believe what he pleases on the sub- 
ject, and be a good child of the Church still." 

Are such declarations to be accepted as the truth ? Has the 
Papacy abated one iota of the pretences and claims put forth 
for the past ten centuries or more? All history admonishes us 
to the contrary, and stamps as untrue the assertion that the 
head of the Roman Church has abandoned all claim to political 
authority. That Romanism is a politico-religious organization 
is shown by all its past record. At an early period the Bishops 
of Rome learned the value of temporal power, and craftily 
moulded men and monarchies to their will. They did not hesi- 
tate to arrogate as a right that which originally had been grant- 
ed as a favor. When princes protested against the assumptions 
of Rome, or jurists denied the validity of her claims, forgery 
was resorted to in defence of ecclesiastical usurpations, and 
absolution and perferment were the rewards of assassins who 
removed her opponents. The See of Rome took early advan- 
tage of the struggle between the Eastern and Western Empires 
to reject the Byzantine yoke, and by this act asserted a right 
to resist governments — a right which it has never ceased to 
claim. 

In assuming the prerogatives of temporal princes, the Popes 
proclaimed to the world that a union could exist between the 
temporal and spiritual, and that the professed successors of a 
humble Jewish fisherman claimed power over the bodies as 
well as the souls of men. By degrees the Papacy matured its 
secular policy, establishing its authority by precedents, until 
Rllde brand became Pope in 1073, under the title of Gregory 
VII., and set himself up as the rival of the powerful Emperor 
of Germany. The contest between Gregory and Henry IV. 
was severe, but in the end, the Emperor was obliged to succomb. 
After standing for more than three days barefoot in the snow, 
clad in haircloth, without attendants and without food, in the 
courtyard of the Castle of Canossa, suing for pardon, Gregory 
received the suppliant monarch, and extorted such conditions 
as made the German crown, for the time, a dependency of the 
Bishop of Rome. But the operations of the Papacy were not 
confined solely to Germany. Its emissaries were active else- 
where. They imposed and collected taxes in England without the 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 93 

consent of the authorities, and by their rapacity and extortions 
frequently incited insurrections. In France the civil power 
was forced to interfere against their extravagant demands, and 
the French monarch decreed the " Pragmatic Sanction," curb- 
ing the power of the Papacy in his kingdom. The conduct of 
Rome drove monarchy to rebellion, and then, in accordance 
with a settled policy, she resolved to gain by wiles what could 
not be acquired by force. 

Aiming at temporal power, it formed no part of the policy 
of Rome to permit freedom to the people. The Papacy allied 
itself with tyranny at an early date, well understanding that 
liberty would be death to its pretensions. When the struggle 
began in the thirteenth century between the people and feudal- 
ism, Rome quickly sided with the enslavors and oppressors 
of the masses. The English Barons who assembled at Runny- 
mede and extorted from King John that famous deed known as 
Magna Charta, were excommunicated by the Pope. A barbar- 
ous crusade was set on foot against the Albigeoses, the object 
being to deprive them of political and religious freedom. They 
were under the protection of the Count of Toulouse, and when 
that nobleman refused to abet the Papacy in its accursed de- 
signs, he was placed under the ban of excommunication, and 
his destruction determined upon. Every expedient was 
resorted to in order to detach their protectors from this unfor- 
tunate people. As an evidence of the unhallowed policy of 
Rome towards her opponents, we quote the following memor- 
able language used by Pope Innocent III. to the Abbot of 
Citeaux : 

"We advise you, according to the precepts of the Apostle 
Paul, to use cunning in your dealings with the Count, which, 
in the present case, should rather be deemed prudence. It is 
expedient to attack those separately who have broken the unity 
of the Church ; to spare the Count of Toulouse ror a season, 
treating him with wise dissimulation, in order that the heretics 
may be more easily destroyed, and that we may crush him at 
our leisure wheu he stands alone." 

But Romanism has found it convenient to employ other 
weapons beside dissimulation and treachery, stooping even to 
assassination for the accomplishment of her fell purposes. 
Henry VII., Emperor of Germany, having failed to obey an 
order of Pope Clement V., was foully murdered in the monas- 
tery of Buonconvento by a Dominican monk, who received 
private instructions to administer poison in the sacramental cup 
to the monarch. Although the leader of the Romanist party in 
France, and the enemy of the Huguenots, the Duke of Guise was 
assassinated by order of his sovereign, and the Pope justified his 
murder on the ground of political expediency. We quote one 
other memorable instance of Papal duplicity. History cannot 
point out a more devoted supporter of Rome than Philip II. 



94 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

of Spain. The Pope, however, feared his power, and ad- 
vised Elizabeth of England to interfere against Philip's 
authority in the Netherlands. When the latter finally resolved 
on war with England, the Pope betrayed the plans of the 
Spanish King to Elizabeth, and furnished her with the cor- 
respondence of Philip relating to the celebrated Armada. The 
history of the Papacy abounds with such instances, and neither 
succeeding centuries nor the advance of civilization has 
wrought a change. Rome inculcates the maxim : " The end 
justifies the means." Hence it is that crimes have become 
virtues in the creed of that politico-religious organization. 

The Peace of Westphalia, in 1648, provided for the legal ex- 
istence of the Catholic and Reformed Churches side by side. 
This was the triumph of Protestantism and free opinions. The 
Papacy lost the power to maintain its authority by the aid of 
arms and the civil power, and from that period, downward, its 
existence and influence have been perpetuated only by craft 
and cunning. It has weapons suited to every cycle. It is all 
things to all men. It adapts itself to every people in every 
clime under heaven. It hypocritically couforms to and supports 
governments the most diverse. But whether they be despotic, 
monarchical, or republican, the aim of Rome remains un- 
changed, and the unity of her purpose undisturbed. Catholic- 
ism is only tolerant where forced to be, and persecuting where 
it has the power. It professes liberalism in England and Am- 
erica, it wars against civil authority in Germany, and assassin- 
ates Protestants in Mexico. To sum up the character of that 
Church in brief, we may say that it tyrannized in barbarism, 
fawned in the sixteenth century, and actively intrigues in the 
nineteenth. 

The time once was when Rome accomplished her purpose by 
physical means. Her power served to make her a political 
umpire between contending governments. She no longer pos- 
sesses this influence, and adapts herself to the age. Her 
ministers are educated to meet the times. Her laity may be 
ignorant, but her priests, as a body, are educated, scientific, 
and refined. In their body may be found men eminent in every 
branch of literature, and particularly in political philosophy. 
Their education is instilled into them with the one single aim 
of making their order supreme over the masses. They are a 
well-instructed and well-drilled army, obeying but one superior, 
and acting in unison all over the world. Celibacy is the great 
bond which unites the Roman clergy to each other and to their 
spiritual head. They have no ties of family or couutry, and 
are wholly subservient to the Pope. Through this priesthood 
the Roman Church is as powerful for evil as iu the days of In- 
nocent III. Although deprived of civil power for the time 
btdug, it is a mistake to suppose that the Papacy is smitten 
with feebleness, or purposes to forego any claim which it has 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 95 

asserted or enforced in the past. Pius IX., who started as a 
liberal and expelled the Jesuits from his States in 1848, is 
thoroughly imbued with the spirit of his predecessors, and 
since 1850 has devoted all his energies to imposing on the 
Church the extreme doctrines of the Papacy of the Middle 
Ages. As a writer has recently said : 

" His success has been one of the most conspicuous features 
in European history ; and to find a Pope who has so profound- 
ly impressed his personality upon his Church, we must look 
back to Innocent II T. or to Hildebrand." Since 1864, his 
warfare against modern civilization and progression has been 
unceasing and bitter. In December of that year he astonished 
Europe by issuing an Encyclical Letter, addressed to all Cath- 
olic Bishops, in w T hich he expressed condemnation of the prin- 
cipal beliefs in science, politics, and religion which are charac- 
teristics of the present century. The letter was accompanied 
by a Syllabus, or list, of eighty errors in belief and practice, 
which, as head of the Church, he condemned, and in the exer- 
cise of bis apostolic authority commanded every Catholic to 
denounce and condemn them. As a matter of religious faith, 
this manifesto possessed no interest save to Catholics. But 
there was that in it well calculated to attract attention else- 
where. It boldly declared that the Church has the right to 
coerce dissenters and to control the civil power in executing 
its decrees ; it denounced as damnable the assertion that tho 
Popes have ever been guilty of usurpation in assuming author- 
ity over princes and governments it proscribed freedom of 
opinion and worship as errors not to be tolerated, and proclaim- 
ed it rank heresy to advocate a reconciliation of the Church, 
with modern civilization. In short, Pius IX. defiantly arro- 
gated to himself every power which any and all of his prede- 
cessors had attempted to exercise, and notified the Govern- 
ments of Christendom that all Catholics owed a higher allegi- 
ance to him than to them. The governments of France and 
Portugal prohibited the publication of the Letter and Syllabus. 
Austria passed a series of laws which practically abolished tho 
"Concordat" of 1855, and this led to a conflict between the 
Imperial government and the Catholic clergy. The Pope took 
advantage of the occasion, in a secret consistory, to again 
solemnly denounce liberty of the press and conscience as works 
of the devil, while his clergy in Austria commanded all Cath- 
olics in that country to set the laws at defiance. Aiming to 
regaiu lost or suspended power, the Pope issued his bull in 
1869 convening a General Council of the Church, none having 
been held since 1563. That Council ended by decreeing the 
infallibility of the Pope as an article of faith. 

To what does all this tend ? From the days of GREGORY 
VII. to Pius IX., the Papacy has sedulously taught one doc- 
trine—the elevation of the spiritual over secular power. Thi& 



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right is claimed to be of divine origin, and is not asserted as A 
consequence of the spiritual power. Thus, Hildebrand, in 
excommunicating Henry IV., uses the language, u Ex parte 
omnipoientis Dei." According to the same Pontiff, "kings and 
princes are bound to kiss the feet of Christ's Vicegerent. He 
has a right to depose emperors. His sentence can be annulled 
by none, but he can annul the decrees of all." The same arro- 
gant language was addressed by Pope Boniface to Philip le 
Bel of France. "We would have thee to know that in things 
spiritual and temporal," said the Pope, " thou art subject to 
us." Through the whole range of the Papacy, from Hilde- 
brand to Pius IX., the so-called successors of St. Peter have 
been untiring in enforcing the doctrine of temporal sovereign- 
ty, of their right to rank as King of kings and Lord of lords. 

The Ultramontane doctrine of Bellarmine is really and 
truly the faith of the Roman Church. Said Bellarmine: 
"The Pope as Pope, although he has no merely temporal pow- 
er, hath, nevertheless, in order to a spiritual good, the supreme 
power of disposing of the temporal concerns of all Christians." 
And again : " The Pope has redeemed the clergy from the obe- 
dience due to princes ; therefore, kings are no more the superi- 
ors of the clergy." Baronius, another of the fathers of the 
Roman Church, uses this language : "All those who take from 
the Church of Rome, and from the See of St. Peter one of the 
two swords, and allow only the spiritual, are branded for here- 
tics." Brownson, speaking for American Catholics, enforces 
this doctrine of the Roman hierarchy as follows : "The spirit- 
ual is not only superior to the temporal, but it is sovereign, 
and furnishes its law." Again he says : " The Church bears by 
diviue right both swords, but she exercises the temporal sword 
by the hand of the princes or magistrates. The temporal sov- 
ereign holds it subject to her order, to be exercised in her ser- 
vice, under her direction." And again: "The power of the 
Church exercised over sovereigns in the Middle Ages was not a 
usurpation, was not derived from the concession of princes or 
the consent of all people, but was and is held by divine right, 
and those who resist it rebel against the King of kings and 
Lord of lords." 

This is the position maintained by Pius IX., this is the doc- 
trine taught everywhere by the Jesuits, and enforced by the 
Roman Catholic clergy. A few years ago the Civilta Cattolica, 
a journal published at Rome under the auspices of the present 
Pontiff, made the following declaration : 

" Petty politicians may conclude that the Church has lost her 
power because she does not enlist artillery, cavalry, and infan- 
try ; but the truth is, that the artillery cavalry, and infantry 
of the Catholics are in the hands ot the Church, inasmuch as 
in her hands are the mind, the reason, and the power of everv 
true Catholic," 



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Too true ; and yet politician^ laugh at our fears and deride 
our assertions. Why is it, we ask, that public men and jour- 
nalists are so obsequious to and apologistic of the Romish 
Church ? Why is it that we find them constantly courting that 
politico-religious organization, whose power and influence they 
are so careful to deny ? Whatever they may say to the con- 
trary, it is because they understand Catholicism to be an undi- 
vided power — that it has no factions, n3 two policies. It is a 
party, solid and compact, one and indivisible. How can it be 
otherwise ? The Pope claims infallibility, and the purposes of 
Rome are unchanged and unchangeable. Countless thousands 
of foreign-born Romanists are invested with the right of suf- 
frage, and exercise the privileges of American citizens at the 
ballot-box. In their ignorance and superstition, they venerate 
their parish priests as demigods; the priests, in their turn, 
have no volition apart from their 4iocesan ; and the bishops 
reverence the Pontiff as God's Vicegerent in temporal as well 
as in spiritual matters. It is doubtless safe to say, that we 
have as voters in the United States fully one million of men 
who religiously hold that their first and highest allegiance is 
due to the Pope of Rome. This doctrine has been instilled in- 
to their minds from infancy, and become part and parcel of 
their religion. To them the commands of the Pope are more 
potent than the oracles of God or the laws of the land. To all 
intents and purposes this million of men are subjects of the 
Pope. They belong to him, body and soul, and know no law 
save that which issues from the Vatican. No wonder, then, 
that men who aspire to political position court this great and 
ever-increasiug power. No wonder that demagogues, who 
would sell their conntry for a mess of pottage, are so deferen- 
tial to a Church which aims to subordinate and control the 
civil power. 

We agree with the historican Macaulay, that Rome is still 
full of life, vigor, and determination. He says: "The Papacy 
remains — not a mere antique, but full of life and youthful 
vigor. The Catholic Church is still sending forth to the f urther- 
est ends of the world, missionaries as zealous as those who 
landed in Kent with Augustine ; and still confronting hostile 
kings with the same spirit with which she confronted Attila." 
Unless the friends of religious freedom arouse themselves, the 
time is not far distant when our own Government will be 
wholly under the domination of Rome. What then will become 
of republican institutions ? How long will the Bible remain 
in our public schools ? What will stand between a union of 
Church and State ? What, with Rome in the ascendant, will 
be the rights of Protestants in the future f The time has come 
when this subject should be looked squarely in the face. 

We are no longer to be cajoled into security by the oft-re- 
peated assertion of the Papal See not claiming temporal supre- 



98 ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 

macy. Everywhere we see Rome diligently at work. Through- 
out the several States her clergy are amassing untold wealth. 
We find them forming alliances with political partisans and 
rendering assistance to soulless demagogues. They are spying 
out the weak points in our political system, and learning the 
defects in our constitution. By-and-by, unless we awake to a 
sense of danger, we shall learn, to our hurt, that while we 
slept Rome was ever vigilant and active. It is time to be up 
and doing. No fear of being accused of religious persecution 
should prevent a great Protestant country like our own from 
biuding this intolerant and most hypocritical power. We 
sound the note of alarm, and warn the friends of civil and re- 
ligious freedom against the rapidly advancing political power 
of the Papacy in the United States. 



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EXPLANATORY NOTES. 

Bull. — A written letter, despatched by order of the Pope from 
the Roman Chancery, and sealed with a leaden stamp (bulla). 

Canon. — Signifies such rules as are presented by councils 
concerning faith, discipline and manners, as the Canons of the 
Council of Trent. 

Auto da Fe, or Act of Faith. — A solemn day held by the 
Holy Inquisition for the burning of heretics. 

L atria. — The kind of worship due to God and to the consec- 
rated wafer, distinguished from dulia, or hyperdulia, paid to 
the saints and relics. A foolish distinction invented by the 
Papacy to shield it from the charge of idolatry. 

Heretics. — A name given by Papists to all Christians who 
are not in communion with Rome. 

Ultramontane. — The term "Ultramontane" is much used 
in books and newspapers, and but little understood. It is one 
of those words which, from representing a locality, has come 
to represent a religious belief and a political party. Ultra- 
montane literally means over the mountains. When used as a 
political term it refers to Italy and the political and religious 
tenets of the Church of Rome. Ultramontanism is a belief in 
the unbounded supremacy of the Pope and the union of the 
Church with the State. Representatives of these principles, 
in whatever nation of Europe they are found, are called Ultra- 
montanes. In Spain, in France, in Germany and in Austria, the 
Ultramontane party is still a strong element in the direction 
of public affairs. This party is the remnaut of the followers 
of the old despotic power of the Pope, which placed its foot on 
the necks of kings and robbed them of their purple at will. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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PAGB. 

Introductory .*• 3 

Papal Declarations : 

The Church Unchangeable.. . 4 

Romish Tolerance 4 

Opposed to Religious Freedom 4 

Freedom to End 4 

The Grave of Protestantism 5 

Liberty to be Destroyed 5 

A State Religion Threatened 5 

Protestant Rights Denied 5 

How Rome Antagonizes Rulers and People 5 

The Church Above the State 5 

The Forces of Romanism 6 

Power of the Pope • 6 

No Usurpation 6 

The Temporal S word 6 

Papal Power 6 

What is Necessary to Salvation 6 

The Spiritual and Temporal 7 

Romisb Teachings 7 

Ultramontane Doctrines : 

The Pope Supreme 7 

The Clergy above Magistrates 7 

Branded for Heretics. ► 7 

The Pope Universal Judge 7 

Clericals Exempt from Law 7 

The State no Jurisdiction 8 

The Pope's Authority to be Unquestioned 8 

Infallibility 8 

The Pope's Absolution 8 



100 table of contexts. 

True Origin of the Pope's Temporal Power : 

The Murderer and Bobber 8 

Satan's Agents 9 

The Pope's Mistress 9 

Spiritual Love 9 

Bequest of an Adultress 9 

Disagreement of Infallible Popes : 

The Fore-runner of Anti-Christ 9 

The Devil's Best Servant 10 

Popish Bible Filled with Errors 10 

Infallibles Representing Cat and Dog 10 

Papal Duplicity : 

Craft Toward the Count of Toulouse 12 

BetrayaJ of Philip II. of Spain 11 

Treachery of Pope Pius IX 11 

The Pope's Accomplishment 11 

What Popes Have Done : 

Poisoning of a German Emperor 12 

Murder Justified 12 

Princes Deprived of Power 12 

The Pope's Interference with Civil Governments 12 

The Power Claimed by Pius IX 12 

Warning to American Protestants 13 

Papai. Interference in Prussia : 

Absolving Catholic Germans 13 

The Pope's Secret Bull.... 13 

Prussian Laws Declared Void 13 

Prince Bismarck's View : 

The Bishops Enslaved 13 

The Pope's Personality Explained. * 13 

His Power and Programme. 14 

What He Condemns 14 

Perdition or Romanism 14 

ROMANISM AND FREEDOM : 

False Assertions 14 

Rome Intolerant 14 

The Blood of Heretics 14 

Heretics Condemned to Death 14 

Warning to Secular Powers 15 

Victims of the Inquisition 15 

The Hard Times of Vi vis 15 

Excommunication of the English Barons 15 

Tolerance in Maryland 15 

Liberty of Conscience and the Colonial Government of 
Maryland 16 



ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL. 101 

Pope Gregory XVI., Against Liberty of Opinion 16 

Catholic Hatred of Protestantism 16 

A Call for the Inquisition in America 16 

The Cursings and Blessings of Pope Pius IX 17 

The Inquisition: 

The Inquisition Established as a Church 17 

Its Introduction at Eome 17 

Its Inventor and Popish Endorsers 18 

The Present Pope is Prefect of the Inquisition 18 

Restoration of the Inquisitorial Prisons by Pius IX 18 

Terrorism in the United States 18 

The Papacy Unchanged : 

Persecuting Spirit of Rome 19 

Annual Cursing of Protestants 19 

Protestant Patronage of Rome * 19 

Austrian Laws Denounced 20 

An Archbishop's Opinion 20 

Denunciation of Female Instruction in France 20 

Persecution in America 20 

Cardinals and their Oath : 

Origin of Cardinals 21 

The Office Wholly Laical 21 

Marriage of a Cardinal • 21 

Style of Address 21 

Three fold Character of Emissary, Spy, and Inquisitor. .. 22 
The Cardinal's Oath 22 

The Jesuits: 

Founding of the Order 23 

Assumption of Characters 23 

Terms Applied to the Jesuits 23 

The Wicked Oath 24 

Expulsion from Various Countries 25 

Resort to the United States 25 

Jesuit Colleges, etc 25 

The Papal Bishops : 

The Bishop's Oath. 26 

Teaching Disobedience to Law 26 

M. C apel's Declaration 26 

Bishop Gilmer's Idea of Citizenship 26 

An Archbishop's Wail 26 

The Old Path 27 

Bishops and their Tyranny 27 

Enemies to Liberty 28 

Threatening Attitude Toward the American Republic. • , . 23 



102 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

Romish Priest's Oath : 

Education of Irish Priests at Maynooth 28 

The Oath they Take 28 

The Romish Curse: 

Excommunication of Roman Backsliders 29 

Horrid Imprecations 29 

Dissolving Doubts 30 

The State and Christianity: 

Intention of our National Founders 30 

Christianity a Part of the Law 30 

Tolerant Christianity 31 

The Duty of Government. . . : 31 

Results of a Wise Choice 31 

Opinion of Daniel Webster. . . . 31 

Advantages of Civil and Religious Liberty 32 

Sentiment of Stephen A. Douglas 32 

Trusting in God 32 

A Patriot's Prayer 32 

The Pillars of Human Happiness 32 

A Judicial Decision 32 

Religion Necessary to National Morality 33 

Anti-Christian Laws not Binding on the Citizen 33 

A Plain Political Axiom 33 

Voices of the Past : 

The Foes of American Liberty 33 

Warning Against Foreign Influence 33 

Jefferson's Wish for an Ocean of Fire 33 

America's Grecian Horse 33 

Old Hickory's View 34 

Intelligence Indispensable to a Republic 34 

Danger of Renouncing Principle 34 

Henry Clay on the Union 34 

The National Inheritance 34 

Christianity and the American Revolution 34 

The Bible: 

The Conservator of Bodies Politic 34 

Principles of Christianity 34 

A Book of Faith 35 

The Rule of Faith and Practice 35 

Effect of a Free Gospel 35 

The Bulwark of Right 35 

The True Foundation 35 

The Hope of Free Nations 35 

Papal Hatred of the Bible : 
The Council of Toulouse 35 



ANTI PAPAL MANUAL. 103 

The Synod of Oxford 35 

Action of the Councils of Terracona, Bologna and Trent.. 36 

Ball of Innocent III 36 

Course of Several Popes 36 

Declaration of Cardinal Hosius 36 

Bishop Ximenes against the Bible 37 

Letter of Pope Pius VII 37 

Bull of Gregory XVI 37 

Curses of Pope Pius IX 38 

Scarcity of Bibles amoug Papists in the United States.. *. 38 

Testimony of Mr. Parks 39 

Bible Circulation Prohibited in Rome 39 

Den's Theology and the Use of the Scriptures 39 

The Papacy and Free Schools: 

Danger to Catholicism 40 

Bitter Denunciation of Public Schools by a Roman Priest, 40 

Let the Schools go to the Devil 41 

Liberal Catholics Denounced 41 

Endorsed by a Catholic Journal 41 

The American School System an Outrage 41 

An Irish Member of Parliament on the Rampage 41 

Catholic Demands. 42 

Catholic Opinion of the School Tax 42 

An Irish Bigot's Insult 42 

Rage of a Catholic Newspaper • 43 

Denunciation of Protestantism 43 

Religious Instruction Called For 43 

The Expulsion of the Bible from Cincinnati Schools 44 

What Catholics Desire. 44 

A Wail from the Pope 45 

The Higher Law 45 

Training Thieves in Parochial Schools 45 

American vs. Foreign Sentiment: 

Webster's Opinion of Girard's System 46 

Destructi ve Tendency of Such a System 46 

The Lights of New England 46 

Education a Liberal System of Police 46 

Necessity of Common Schools 46 

How They Should be Kept 47 

No Room for Hesitation 47 

Advice of John Quincy Adams 47 

A Precious Legacy 47 

The Duty of Protestants 47 

The Word in Season 47 

America's Right to the Bible 47 

A Good Motto 48 

The Practical and Safe Way 48 



104 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

The Nation Built upon the Bible. • 48 

Advantage of Diffusing Knowledge 48 

A Call to Reclaim Lost Ground 48 

Ballots and Bayonets 49 

The Security of Republican Institutions 49 

The Bi ule Part and Parcel of American Civilization 49 

Who are the Clamorers ? 49 

The Confessional 49 

The Foe in Our Midst 50 

Papal Educators: 

Catholic Mission in Education 50 

Lowering the Standard 50 

Making Flocks of Ignorant Teople 50 

Popular Education Considered Dangerous 50 

Victor Hugo's Protest ; 

The Clerical Party 51 

It Fetters Science and Genius. 51 

Opposed to Human Progress 51 

Its Couduct Toward Prinelli, Harvey, Galileo, and Colum- 
bus 51 

The Cursing of Pascal, Montaigne, and Moliere 52 

Opposition to the Bible 52 

Papal Pupils 52 

What Catholicism Has Done for Italy and Spain 52 

The Inquisition and its Victims 52 

The Gaggers of the Roman People 53 

A Caution 53 

Rome's Six Greatest Sins : 
M. Tissot's Arraignment of Rome 53 

Papal Growth in the United States : 

A Politico-Religious Organization 54 

Boasting of Present Strength 54 

Hostile to Civil and Religious Liberty 54 

Great Increase Since 1830 54 

The Roman Establishment in the United States 54 

Views of an English Writer Concerning Catholic Growth, 54 
Catholicism in England 55 

A Scrap of History : 

Action of the Early Episcopalians and Methodists 56 

Romanists Maintaining Foreign Allegiance 56 

Papal Military Organizations : 

State Troops Reviewed by a Catholic Priest 56 

Organization of Foreign Regiments 57 

Attendance of Military at Papal Religious Ceremonies,, .. 57 



ANTl PAPAL MANUAL. 105 

The Romish Church is Far Seeing. 58 

Ability of Papists to Raise an Army in the United States. 58 

Papal Massacre at San Miguel : 

The Cause of Riot 59 

Violence of a Priest 59 

A Garrison Assaulted and Assassinated 59 

Killing of Citizens 59 

Brutal Conduct Toward Two Generals 59 

Papal Passports to Heaven. . - 60 

The Enemy op Woman's Honor: 

How Romish Celibacy Profanes the Gospel Calling 60 

The Church Arraigned 60 

The Clergy Impeached for High Crimes 60 

Charged with Screening Fornication and Lechery 60 

Who are Condemned by the Roman See? 61 

Monstrous Claims by the Papacy: 

Assumption of the Pope 62 

Supreme Sovereignty 62 

The Machinery of Romanism 62 

Paganism the Model 62 

Parceling Out the World 62 

How the Word is Passed 62 

The Papal Hierarchy: 

A Gigantic Political Association ' 62 

The Pope's Enrolled Army 63 

Its Field and Object 63 

The Stupendous Claims of the Hierarchy 63 

Papacy the New Religion : 

The Papists' Inquiry 63 

A Question Solved 64 

Rome's Doctrines of Recent Origin 64 

Completion of Her Apostacy 64 

Romanism the New Religion , «... 64 

Image Worship 64 

Infallibility 65 

Tran substantiation 65 

Sacrifice of the Mass 65 

Auricular Confession. 65 

Service in Latin 65 

Papal Supremacy 66 

Seven Sacraments. .. 66 

Half Communion 66 

Purgatory , . . 66 

Indulgences 66 



106 table oif contends. 

Apocryphal Books «...•«...«. 66 

Invocation of Saints and Angels 66 

Intention 67 

Justification 67 

Venial Sins 67 

Celibacy of Clergy 67 

Insufficiency of the Bible 67 

Its Reading Prohibited 67 

The Interpreter of Scripture 67 

Papal Doctrines At War with the Scriptures : 

Romish Doctrines and Teaching Compared with Scripture, 68 

Human Patchwork 69 

The Laity Deceived .Y 69 

No Early Traditions in Favor of Rome 69 

The Papal Bible: 

The Latin Vulgate 70 

Action of Sixtus V • 70 

Dangerous Errors Promulgated by a Pope 70 

Another Infallible Pope Issues a Bible 70 

Father Ungarelli's Discovery 70 

Rome's Scriptural Depository 70 

Rome's Moral Theology : 70 

The Goddess of Romanism: 

Mary the Great Object of Homage 71 

Extracts from the " Glories of Mary," 72, 73 

The One Enemy of Popular Education : 

American Non-Sectarian Schools • • . • 74 

Their Destruction Ordered by the Pope 74 

Papal Plunder of a Public Treasury 74 

Parochial Schools and their Fruits: 

Where the Parochial Schools Have Been Fully Tried 74 

Their Fruits 75 

Illiterates, Paupers and Criminals Increased by Such 

Schools 75 

Contrast between Parochial Schools and the Public Schools 76 

Pius IX. on Civil and Religious Laws: 

All Liberty Condemned 76 

Believers in Freedom Denounced 77 

Christian Sentiment: 

Presbyterian Resolutions 77 

Opinion of a Reformed ( Dutch) Church Synod 77 

A Voice from the New York Bible House 78 

The Strength and Glory of America 79 



ANTI-PAPAL MaNCAL. 107 

Romish Laws : 

Arbitrary Interference with Conscience * . ***«.. . 79 

Civil Marriage Held to be Concubinage 79 

The Case of Father McGlew 79 

A Double Marriage in Canada 80 

The Danger to Society 80 

Public Enemies: 

Complaint of the Austrian Government 80 

A Conundrum for Politicians to Solve 80 

The Middle Ages 80 

State Supervision op Monastic Institutions: 

Institutions in France 81 

Subject to Governmental Supervision 81 

Monastic Institutions Abolished in Portugal 81 

Action of Various Countries 81, 82 

Church Property: 

Value of Church Property in the United States 82 

Its Taxation Favored by Methodists 82 

The Papacy and Secret Societies : 

Societies Not Catholic Under Ban 82 

Papal Bulls Against Masonry 83 

Washington and Other American Patriots Cursed by Rome 83 

The Pope a Perjured Mason 83 

His Expulsion from the Order 83 

Matters Worth Remembering : 

How the Reformed and Romish Churches Differ 83 

Gavazzi's Warning 84 

Whom the Pope Blessed and Cursed 84 

How Protestants and Romanists are Influenced 84 

The Case Stated: 

Rome at Variance with all National Liberty 85 

Despotic Government of the Priests . 85 

Commissions from a Foreign Power 85 

The Meaning of Romish Oaths 85 

The Fountain op Civilization: 

The Bible the Great Civilizer 86 

Its Influence on Nations. 86 

Secret Organization: 

The Order of the American Union Assailed 86 

The Roman Church a Secret Organization. 86 

Its Two Great Talons 86 

Notorious for Secret Plotting. 86 



108 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

The Secrecy of the Continental Congress *,.... 87 

The U. S. Constitutional Convention 87 

The Cry of Past Ages 87 

Our Duty and the Future : 

New Consecration to Protestant Liberty the Need 88 

What Americans Should Do 88 

Hope of a Catholicism Not Roman 88 

The Bible and America's Future 88 

Papistical Patriotism: 

Catholic Boast of Loyalty 88 

Rome's Recognition of Southern Independence 89 

Jefferson Davis Blessed by the Pope. 89 

Effect on Irish Catholic Enlistments 89 

Resistance to Drafting 89 

Catholics True to their Foreign Allegiance 89 

Abraham Lincoln's Assassins: 

The Victims of the Papacy 89 

Evidences of the Pope's Hatred to the American Union .... 89 
The Murder of Liucoln, the Natural Sequence of Rome's 

Hostility, 90 

The Hellish Plot Against a Good Man's Life 90 

The Bloody Drama Planned in the House of a Devout 

Catholic 90 

An Escaped Assassin Hidden in a Catholic Convent 90 

The Pope's Protection of the Murderer 90 

Miscellaneous : 

Blasphemous Claim for the Pope 90 

The Pope Creating God 90 

Opposition to Bible Reading 90 

A Glorious Day for Papists 90 

The Changed Question 90 

Report to the Pope 90 

Romanish Plans to Ensure Victor}' 90 

Rome's Triumph to be Witnessed by this Generation 91 

An American Cardinal on the War-path 91 

The Right to Employ Force Reiterated 91 

The Spouse of Christ Intolerant 91 

Catholic Opinion of Religious Liberty 91 

The Pope and Political Power 91 





THE 

ANTI-PAPAL MANUAL 

A BOOK OF READY REFERENCE 



FOR 



AMERICAN PROTESTANTS 

By WM. II. VAN NOBTWICK. 



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"The Romish church has always ranged herself on the side of despotism. "- 
! Guizot. 



"There are two very essential steps to be taken in order to win the next 
Presidential race. It is scarcely necessary, we trust, to urge our fellow-Cath- 
olics to assemble everywhere around the Democratic colors ; for they are all, 
by choice or necessity, external to the Republican party, and it is incredible to 
believe that any Catholic who has a modicum of self-respect and love for his 
church can co-operate with that party. If hitherto he has done so, the time is 
at hand to abandon an organization which is confessedly, and without longer 
disguise, at war with our holy religion."— Southern Catholic, (Memphis, Tenn.) 



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